Angela Carter includes her own representation of the fairy tale 'Little Red Riding Hood' in 'The Company of Wolves'. However, she changes the whole tone of the children's tale

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 Angela Carter includes her own representation of the fairy tale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in ‘The Company of Wolves’. However, she changes the whole tone of the children’s tale, turning it into a horrific, violent and almost pornographic, yet highly humorous and ironic story. The story now fits into a modern society, where the culture accepts such things as the black humour, and television programmes such as ‘Buffy’ encourage an interest in mythical creatures, where people accept the existence of such beings as part of the story.

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 Angela Carter’s vivid descriptions give a nightmarish feel to the wolves, giving in to the generic beasts of the imagination, like foreboding monsters that come out as night, eating those who dare enter the forest. This is typically fairy tale-esque, and it could almost be said that the emphasised, overdone nature of the story turns it into a satire of a fairy tale, with Carter ridiculing the traditional style of them, with their weak stereotypical females and dominant males. She turns these stereotypes around, giving the girl the power at the end to use her sexuality, normally non-existent in ...

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