Quest narratives

• Who proposed the quest narratives theory?

  Tim Youngs
• A focus on a search for something or someone unavailable in the 'hero's' present culture
• A narrative that is told almost exclusively from the traveller's perspective and offers a very subjective way of seeing the world
• Characters and objects are seen as obstructions that need to be overcome/lessons to be learnt
• Readers/listeners are positioned to follow the narrative in certain ways so as to accept a particular point of view
• The "questers" use their journeys they take for their own purposes as a way of promoting a certain world-view and often centre round a narrative of self-discovery