the wolf stories
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- the wolf stories
- the werewolf
- the one where the grandmother gets stoned to death
- setting
- setting is isolated with no indication of time or place.
- "it is a northern country" to enhance the isolation and to reflect on the isolation of the child
- folkloric setting
- "At midnight, especially on Walpurgisnacht, the Devil holds picnic is the graveyard and invites the witches
- "there houses are built of logs, dark and smoky from within" idea of a past time, medieval. Gothic obsession
- superstition
- "wreaths of garlic on the doors keep out the vampires"
- "wreath" links to death, like the one you put on a grave
- "wreaths of garlic on the doors keep out the vampires"
- the forest is metaphysical for approaching adulthood
- setting is isolated with no indication of time or place.
- the character of the wolf/ grandmother
- "it was a huge one, with red eyes and running grizzled chops"
- red= danger
- huge implies it will destroy the girl
- Gothic and terrifying image
- "lolloping off disconsolately"
- contrast to first image. to show power of the girl
- "shrieking like thing possessed" link to the devil
- "it was a huge one, with red eyes and running grizzled chops"
- the Gothic
- "bloody stump" blood and gore
- "and pelted her with stones til she fell dead" death and murder
- hostile and dangerous
- constant references to the supernatural. "the devil" "witches"
- "bloody stump" blood and gore
- company of wolves
- the presentation of the wolves
- "carnivore incarnate" he is a meat eater and nothing else.
- "pupils of their eyes fatten on darkness and catch the light and flash it back at you- red for danger"
- danger, eyes doorway to the soul, black souls
- "terrible sequins" juxtaposotion
- "aria of fear made audible" collapse of binary
- "as if the vegetation itself were in plot with the wolves" everything in league with wolves
- "and then no wolf at all lay in front of the hunter but the bloody trunk of a man, headless, dying, dead"
- human and wolf, list to draw out pain
- "there is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy as infinite as the forest"
- wolves are unhappy in their position; not only carnivore
- "they say there's and ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf" in league with the devil
- "you can tell by their eyes.. devastating eyes as red as a wound"
- "the worst of the wolves are hairy on the inside" inherently evil
- the girl
- "but this strong minded child insists she will go to the woods" strong minded, independent
- "had been indulged by her mother and the grandmother" Favourite
- "the ominous if brilliant look of blood on snow" danger and passion. advertising he sexuality
- "she has just started her woman's bleeding" teenager
- "she stands and moves in the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. she is an unbroken egg"
- virginity is a form of protection
- virginity is desirable, sets it up for a coming of age tale
- "her father might forbid her, if he were home" absence of father figure
- nieve; "when he offered to carry her basket she gave it to him"
- the boy
- "a very handsome one"
- "the green coat and wide hat of a hunter" green = spring and rebirth. hunter =foreshadowing
- carries her basket. gentlemanly but he has an ulterior motive
- he seduces her; " commonplaces of rustic seduction"
- "there is a faint trace of blood on his chin" the physical presence of a hunter; "carnivore incarnate"
- "off with his disguise" metamorphosis
- "he strips off his shirt. His skin is the colour and texture of vellum. A crisp stripe of hair runs down his belly, his ******* as ripe and dark as poison fruit
- the presentation of the wolves
- "carnivore incarnate" he is a meat eater and nothing else.
- "pupils of their eyes fatten on darkness and catch the light and flash it back at you- red for danger"
- danger, eyes doorway to the soul, black souls
- "terrible sequins" juxtaposotion
- "aria of fear made audible" collapse of binary
- "as if the vegetation itself were in plot with the wolves" everything in league with wolves
- "and then no wolf at all lay in front of the hunter but the bloody trunk of a man, headless, dying, dead"
- human and wolf, list to draw out pain
- "there is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy as infinite as the forest"
- wolves are unhappy in their position; not only carnivore
- "they say there's and ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf" in league with the devil
- "you can tell by their eyes.. devastating eyes as red as a wound"
- "the worst of the wolves are hairy on the inside" inherently evil
- beautiful but scary image.
- the presentation of the wolves
- "he licked his chops and quickly dressed himself again" lack of emotion- just another old woman
- " wrapped the bones up in a napkin that he hid under the bed in the wooden chest" respectful
- " the colour of poppies" suggests death
- " she bundled up her shawl and threw it on the blaze, which instantly consumed it" rejects virginial naivety for sexual enlightenment
- "it is Christmas day, the Werewolves birthday" they have links with God
- pathway to marriage. wood =coming of age and the marriage bed at the end
- the presentation of the wolves
- Wolf Alice
- the charcter of the girl
- she is dehumanised "nothing about her is human except she is not a wolf"
- "like all wild beasts she lives without a future"
- "wolf Alice" eponymous character, hypenated name
- Eve, she is what humans were like in the Garden of Eden; "to cover her bold nakedness"
- "she arched her back, pawed the floor, retreated to a far corner of the chapel, crouched trembled, urinated...reverted entirely, it would seem, to her natural state"
- she is naturally a wolf, unhuman
- possibly a rejection of religion
- "her mother had bore her and left her" not doubt she is human
- "she might prove to be the wise child who leads them"
- idea that humans should be more animalistic.
- "we secluded her in animal privacy out of fear of her imperfections because it showed us what we might have been"
- human fancination with perfection
- "she learnt to expect these bleedings" learning is a human quality
- "she discovered the very action of time"
- "because she now knew how to wear clothes" sign of human subjectivity
- tale about what makes us human; it is not our physical being but our morality, desire to wear clothes etc
- the charcter of the Duke
- "the duke is sere as old paper; his dry skin rustles against the bedsheets" dehumanisation
- "With old scars where thorns have scored his pelt" pelt is animalistic
- "Iberian butchers shop" foreshadowing, unsympathetic
- "his eyes see only appetite. these eyes open to devour the world"
- fear of consumption
- "he is white a leprosy, with scabbing finger nails, and nothing deters him" Lexical field of illness
- "role of the corpse eater" gothic
- "if the Duke had been a wolf they would have angrily expelled him from the pack"
- "she encountered the Duke with the leg of a man over his shoulder "
- "the damned Duke"
- "cannibal rituals"
- "poor, wounded thing...locked half and half between such states, and aborted transformation"
- constant references to the Garden of Eden. "how can a bitten apple flesh out it's scar again?"
- "then she began to bleed" womanhood
- "It was not fastidiousness but shame that made her do so"
- Adam and Eve felt shame in the GOE
- The mirror
- Motif of the mirror symbolise humanity
- distinguises between Human, Beast and Half-being
- brings to light the Dukes and Alice's liminal existence
- "a little moisture leaked from the corners of her eyes, yet her relation with the mirror was now far more intimate"
- "yielded to the reflexive strength of its own material construction"
- "to drown the Duke if the bullets bounced off" humans more inhumane that the beasts
- the charcter of the girl
- the werewolf
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