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Title: Summary of The Company of Wolves, 'The Bloody Chamber'
Description: This gives an Introduction summary as well as the main story summary. Also including the gothic elements within this short story, as well as the themes and explicit links it has with the original story Red Riding Hood.
Description: This gives an Introduction summary as well as the main story summary. Also including the gothic elements within this short story, as well as the themes and explicit links it has with the original story Red Riding Hood.
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The Company of Wolves
The introduction Summary:
• Story starts with how werewolves have done harm to local villages and
families
• The story of the hunter who trapped a wolf by using a duck as bait, cut
off all his paws, and when the wolf is dead a man now lay at the hunter’s
feet
• A witch turned her wedding into wolves because the groom settled on
another girl
• A young woman married a man and he disappeared the night of her
wedding
• The woman would wait for her husband to return but only heard the
howling of wolves
• She married, had children and a year later her first husband returns,
when he sees second husband he becomes angry and bites the child’s
foot off
• The second husband chops the wolf up until he dies; also turns into a
man, the woman is so distraught her second husband beats her
• Talks about different beliefs about what makes a wolf
The main story Summary:
• Introduction of a little girl who is going to deliver a basket of gifts to her
old dying Grandma on Christmas Eve, taking a knife with her for
protection
• On the way she meets a strange man, although she was suspicious at
first, “Soon they were laughing and joking like old friends
...
He bets her
that he will get there before her and asks for a kiss if he wins
• The man (a werewolf) arrives first and pretends to be the girl to get in
...
She starts starts to take her
clothes off and “freely gave the kiss she owed him”
...
“Carnivore
incarnate, only immaculate flesh appeases him
...
All the better to see you with
...
All the better to hug you with
...
”
Gothic elements:
• Setting – the forest is classically gothic, natural setting contrasts with the
supernatural werewolves
• Explicit blood/gore and horror – the eating of Granny
• Fear – Granny throwing her bible and apron at the wolf
• Isolation – Girl is alone traveling through the woods; Granny is alone at
home leaving her vulnerable
Themes:
• Sexuality
• Violence
• Death
• Fear
• Betrayal
• Reversal of power
• Time
• Religion
Title: Summary of The Company of Wolves, 'The Bloody Chamber'
Description: This gives an Introduction summary as well as the main story summary. Also including the gothic elements within this short story, as well as the themes and explicit links it has with the original story Red Riding Hood.
Description: This gives an Introduction summary as well as the main story summary. Also including the gothic elements within this short story, as well as the themes and explicit links it has with the original story Red Riding Hood.