'The moon had been shining into the kitchen where she woke to feel the trickle between her thighs.'
Moon symbolises fertility. This quote highlights the idea that she doesn't understand her own body, and doesn't belong in the wolf/human society
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'it is as if the fur she thought she wore had melted into her skin and become part of it.'
Wolf-Alice, like the werewolf Duke, has a dual nature: part human, part wolf.
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'eyes see only appetite'
The wolf as a symbol of appetite, of voracious consumption. 'Appetite' implies sexual greed: the consumption of flesh both for nourishment and sexual gratification.
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'we secluded her in animal privacy ... because it showed us what we might have been'
Humans fear and deny their animal nature. Links to the symbolic significance of transformation from beast to human, or human to beast.
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'Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future'
This foreshadows the events to come and emphasises societal preferences to those civilised
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'Her pace is not our pace'
Society looks at what sets people apart, doesn't pay attention to similarities.
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'Nothing about her is human except that she is not a wolf'
Gothic, presents her animal characteristics and plays on the typical gender associations - wolves usually are associated and characterise men - wolves represent power, predatory
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'haunts the graveyard'
Gothic setting that links to the supernatural - afterlife - distances us from reality/normality
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Wolf-Alice, like the werewolf Duke, has a dual nature: part human, part wolf.
Back
'it is as if the fur she thought she wore had melted into her skin and become part of it.'
Card 3
Front
The wolf as a symbol of appetite, of voracious consumption. 'Appetite' implies sexual greed: the consumption of flesh both for nourishment and sexual gratification.
Back
Card 4
Front
Humans fear and deny their animal nature. Links to the symbolic significance of transformation from beast to human, or human to beast.
Back
Card 5
Front
This foreshadows the events to come and emphasises societal preferences to those civilised
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