Gender Stereotypes In Angela Carter's The Company Of Wolf

In Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves” the wolves are perceived as dangerous and aggressive creatures posing threat to humans. In small villages, the children are given weapons just to protect themselves from the evil wolves. However, in Angela Carter’s story, a male can turn into a wolf. This undermines the binary oppositions for Carter’s story. Aaron Devor states in “Gender Roles Behaviors and Attitudes”, how the females are dependent and how the males are independent and much more aggressive. Devor even shows us how the gender stereotypes are divided among today’s society. There are many examples of gender stereotypes in Carter’s story that go hand in hand with Devor’s statements. In Carter’s texts, there are examples of how the males act in a feminine way and how the females act in a masculine way.

During those seven years, the man was a wolf. The wolf man comes back to his wife after all those years and figures out that his wife got remarried. The man gets aggressive and acts like a savage then which he dies because the second husband kills him. This part of the text shows how both of men in this part of the Carter’s text are acting very masculine and this agrees with what Devor states in “Gender Roles Behavior and Attitudes”. There are many cases in Carter’s story that show examples and the examples don’t support the binary oppositions. Although in Carter’s “The Company of Wolves” seems as if the story supports the binary oppositions, but the bottom line of Carter’s story is that the story combines the two worlds of wolves versus humans. In reality, Carter’s story undermines and collapses the binary oppositions by a great