TABLE III: The Complication - Seeker/Revenge Hero

The seeker hero gets called by the dispatcher to rescue the princess or seek vengeance for a grievous wrong.  Because of the complexity of this sequence (involving villain, princess, dispatcher, and hero), the seeker hero fills all of the formal elements of Table III.

Villainy:

a. person performing

b. form of villainy

c. object of the villain's influence

d. owner of object or father of person captured

e. motivation and aim of villainy

f. forms of the villain's disappearance

The conjunctive moment:

a. personage-intermediary, dispatcher

b. form of mediation

c. person to whom it is addressed

d. for what end

e. auxiliary elements trebled

f. how the intermediary learns of the hero

The seeker's or hero's entry into the tale

a. nomenclature

b. form of inclusion into the course of the action

c. external peculiarities of appearance on the scene

Form of the hero's consent

Form of dispatch of the hero

Phenomena accompanying him

a. threats

b. promises

c. equipping for the journey

d. auxiliary elements trebled

Dispatch of the hero from home

Goal of the hero

a. goal as an action (to seek out, to liberate, to rescue)

b. goal as an object (a princess, a magical steed, etc.)

Departure