Wolf Alice Revision
- Created by: katie_8
- Created on: 30-04-20 13:09
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- Wolf Alice
- Themes
- Trangression
- Transformation
- Sexuality
- Superstition
- Supernatural
- Vampirism
- Beast vs Man
- Identity
- Quotes
- 'He ceased to cast a reflection in the mirror'
- He is real enough to kill and hunt but not rel enough to cast a reflection of himself
- Stuck as half being - lacks proper identity
- 'it is as if the fur she thought she wore had melted into her skin and become part of it'
- Wolf Alice is part human and part wolf
- 'eyes see only appetite'
- The wolf is a symbol of consumption
- Implies sexual greed
- 'it showed us what we might have been'
- Humans fear and deny their animal nature
- Symbolic significance of transformation between man and beast and vice versa
- 'cleanse herself of her natural juices'
- Symbolism of the negative stigma around womens sexuality
- Shame and embarrasment
- 'He ceased to cast a reflection in the mirror'
- Messages
- The Duke is brought into being by the girls tongue
- Suggesting wolf-like care
- Suggesting human speech - The language which restores Alice's humanity
- Both man and wolf child have recovered their true selves
- The woman allowed the man to recover and see his own true nature through his own image
- Via the mirror
- Wolf Alice recovered by knowing herself through her own image
- Via the mirror
- The woman allowed the man to recover and see his own true nature through his own image
- The Duke is brought into being by the girls tongue
- Characters
- Alice
- Animal behaviours
- Inhumane
- She has neither language nor a perception of time
- Defines human identity
- 'She inhabits only the present tense'
- She has neither language nor a perception of time
- She has neither language nor a perception of time
- Defines human identity
- 'She inhabits only the present tense'
- Inhumane
- Innocent/ Naive
- Inhumane
- Lonely
- Untitled
- Animal behaviours
- The Duke
- Half being
- 'Had the Duke been a wolf, they would have angrily expelled him from the pack'
- No identity
- 'Had the Duke been a wolf, they would have angrily expelled him from the pack'
- Isolated
- Instinctually vicious
- Half being
- Alice
- Themes
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