Company of Wolves-Little Red Riding Hood Essay Example

has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver” (114).At the beginning of the story it first shows the girl as being naive and innocent, towards the middle on her way to the grandmother’s house, she becomes more confident because she is aware of herself and how she is changing, and at the end she has more power over the wolf and gives in because “she knew she was nobody’s meat” (118).

The idea of men being compared to wolves is shown throughout her story where men are turned into wolves, either by a witch’s spell or the devils potion. We could assume that every wolf was once a man. At the beginning Carter explains how wolves are “carnivore incarnate and he’s cunning and ferocious”, but yet she also explains how “melancholy” a wolf can be because “the beasts would love to be less beastly if only they knew how” (110, 112).Everyone seems to be afraid of these wolves “fear and flee the wolf; for, worst of all, the wolf may be more then he seems” which could mean that the wolf isn’t necessarily after fresh meat but that he just wants sex. The wolf only sees women as meat. It kind of reminds me of “The Wedding Singer” where Glenn grades his women with the FDA system, for example if he thought a woman was top of the line he would say that she was Grade A, top choice meat.

At the end of the story, the wolf seems to be put in his place

by the girl because she doesn’t fear him and when he tries to frighten her with telling her he’s going to eat her, she just laughs at him and rips off his clothes. Many stereotypes have men portrayed as beasts that crave sexual encounters and as creatures that only think about sex which Carter seems to do with the wolves. Women are seen as innocent and virtuous individuals that are only spoiled by men. Bibliography Carter, Angela, The Company of Wolves