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    The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter at first glance appears to be a darker spin off of the childhood tale of Little Red Riding Hood before delving into the deeper details of the story. The story begins with a long introduction describing the dull‚ fearful town and its wolves. Carter takes great care in describing the wolves and instilling fear in her readers with intricate descriptions of the wolves and their characteristics. One of the beginning lines‚ and one of my peers favorite lines from

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    Angela Carter wrote ‘The werewolf’ and ‘The Company of Wolves’ as appropriations of the traditional ‘Red Riding Hood’ story. Carter used language‚ atmosphere and originality twisted with a sense of tradition‚ which has created two amazingly deep stories. We know these are appropriations of the traditional red riding hood story‚ as they contain the somewhat traditional aspects/storylines of the traditional story but they are in one way or another completely different. Carter appropriated Little Red

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    readers and help them understand the story clearer. Which exactly what Angela Carter did in her text‚ “The Company of Wolves‚” Carter seems to make a feminist point in her rewrite and seems to criticize the original text of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s story‚ “Little Red Cap.” Instead of having Little Red Riding Hood a weak character who falls for the tricks of the wolf and needs help of a “strong” male character‚ the Huntsman; Carter makes Little

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    The third version of the narrative‚ written by acclaimed horror genre author Angela Carter‚ offers a darker take. Her version is entitled “The Company of Wolves‚” and begins with the story of a sheltered child who travels through the woods in order to bring cakes and treats to her sick and elderly grandmother. The girl is young and inexperienced‚ so she rejects the potential danger that the woods may possess. As she is traveling‚ she hears loud howling‚ and then the huntsman appears from the depths

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    “The Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter follows the story line of the classic children’s fairytale “Little Red Riding Hood” which is known universally in the western world. Despite the relationship between the two stories‚ “The Company of Wolves” has cunningly been written with an eerie atmosphere and plot twists to engage the reader. Reinvented into a gothic fantasy‚ the story highlights Red Riding Hood’s innocence and uses the Wolf as a metaphor for men to position the reader to react differently

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    what use does Carter make of gothic elements in ‘The Bloody Chamber’ The term ‘Gothic’ was first used to describe a style of art and architecture in medieval Europe. It was said that gothic was an “attempt to incorporate the power of wild nature within the structures of civilization” writers later started using this idea in their literature‚ Angela Carter was was of these writers‚ using many gothic elements in her stories to evoke certain emotion from her readers. One of the main gothic elements

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    Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist‚ known for her feminist‚ magical realism‚ and picaresque works. In 2008‚ The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012‚ Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Biography Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne‚ in 1940‚ Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother. As a teenager she battled against

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    Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves” is a feminist and gothic retelling of the classic fairy tale “Little Red Riding-Hood”. Carter’s story involves the werewolf as sexual predator‚ a symbol for both danger and desire‚ over which a young girl triumphs‚ employing her new found sexual power and giving in to the symbol of carnal desire. This is definitely a new twist upon the original tale‚ in which the helpless girl and her grandmother are freed from the belly of a wolf by a passing man‚ as they

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    Choksi Fairytales and Archetypes October 28‚ 2013 The Company of Wolves and Little Red Cap Comparison “Little Red Cap” and the film Company of Wolves (1984) have some similarities yet still have some differences. Rosaleen appears to be a clever young teen who thinks ahead‚ whereas Little Red Cap seems to be a young innocent yet oblivious child. Little Red Cap wear a red cap made of red velvet but Rosaleen wears a red shawl made of wool. They both carry a basket of goods to be delievered to

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    her contextual influence from second wave feminism‚ Angela Carter’s 1979 postmodern appropriation‚ The Company Of Wolves‚ supplants traditional archetypes in order to promote a challenge of gender roles and newfound perception of sexuality as natural and positive. Catherine Orenstein seconds this evolving appropriation in “Storytellers from the women’s perspective and beyond reclaimed the heroine… Recasting the women as brace and resourceful.” Carter begins to undermine the general perception of men

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