The Werewolf
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- Created on: 02-06-15 12:21
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- The Werewolf
- The Grandmother/wolf
- "it was a huge one, with red eyes and running, grizzled chops"
- "red" colour represents danger
- Gothic imagery
- "huge" implies a sense of power over the girl
- "red" colour represents danger
- "the wolf let out a gulp, almost a sob"
- Subversion of the archetype. Feeling pity for the wolf.
- "it was a huge one, with red eyes and running, grizzled chops"
- The Supernatural
- "to these upland woodsmen, the Devil is as real as you or I"
- "wreaths of garlic on the doors keep out the vampires"
- Links to idea of death. wreaths on a grave
- "they soon find it"
- patriarchal society- fear and hatred of women
- Links to the Devil- Supernatural
- Setting
- "it is a northern country"
- setting is isolated
- no indication of time or place
- "margins of the forest"
- Metaphysical for approaching adulthood
- "margins of the forest"
- Enhances isolation of setting and reflect on isolation of the child
- no indication of time or place
- setting is isolated
- Folklore setting
- "At midnight, especially on Walpurgisnacht, the Devil holds picnics in the graveyards and invites the Witches"
- "their houses are built of logs, dark and smokey within"
- sense of the past - medieval
- "it is a northern country"
- Language, Form and Structure
- Language creates distance between the story and the reader
- "it went for her throat as wolves do"
- Short sentances increase the pace of the story and add suspense
- Starts with omniscient narrator- distracts the audience
- Brief change in narrative perspective
- "go and visit grandmother"
- Language creates distance between the story and the reader
- The Child
- No father-figure. strong, independant and assertive
- "take your father's hunting knife. you know how to use it"
- "the good child"
- Nameless child- innocence
- "shabby coat of sheep-skin"
- vulnerable, poor, prey.
- reference to the sacrificial lamb
- Doesn't speak, passivity
- vulnerable, poor, prey.
- "by the wart, she knew it to be her grandmother's hand"
- Moment of realisation- Anagnorisis (greek tragedy
- "now the child lived in the grandmother's house;she prospered"
- defiance of patriarchal expectations
- "now the child lived in the grandmother's house;she prospered"
- Moment of realisation- Anagnorisis (greek tragedy
- No father-figure. strong, independant and assertive
- The Gothic
- The Supernatural
- "to these upland woodsmen, the Devil is as real as you or I"
- "wreaths of garlic on the doors keep out the vampires"
- Links to idea of death. wreaths on a grave
- "they soon find it"
- patriarchal society- fear and hatred of women
- Links to the Devil- Supernatural
- "bloody stump"
- reoccuring theme of blood
- "pelted her with stones until she fell down dead"
- reoccuring theme of death
- "any footsteps, that migth have been upon it were obscured"
- Deception
- security within patriarchal society at the expense of another woman
- The Supernatural
- The Grandmother/wolf
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