Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves"

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This paper explains that in Carter's short story, "The Company of Wolves", displays her feminist point of view by comparing men to beasts who crave sexual encounter and by explaining women's role in society. The author points out that the women in her story are stereotypical; the young girl is pretty, the mother is a housewife who cooks and cleans. The paper relates that another issue, which Carter expresses, is discrimination: Women are discriminated against because of their sex and because of their looks everyday in America.

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"The idea of men being compared to wolves is shown throughout her story by anecdotes where men are turned into wolves, either by a witch's spell or the devils potion. These anecdotes assume that every wolf was once a man. In the first pages of her short story, an anecdote explains how wolves are something to fear, an animal that is cunning, ferocious and out to kill. Toward the end of this anecdote Carter explains, "Fear and Flee the wolf; for, worst of all, the wolf may be more than he seems." In many instances, men are something to fear and flee because of their manipulative ways, and often men are more than they seem."

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