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Patriarchal Judgment And Abuse In Angela Carter's Wolf Stories

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The three qualities that Angela Carter’s wolf stories have in common is women are subject patriarchal judgment and abuse by man. Also they all come from a certain fairy tale or have a base off the farm tale Little Red Riding Hood. Finally there seem to be a lot of supernatural and or mentally unstable person or figure in all of her stories. The text in these series does lead me to believe that this author suffered from type of abuse in her later years as a woman, and it shows in her stories. Patriarchal judgment and abuse, seems to be an ongoing theme in her stories. In the “The Werewolf” the little girl is told to cary around bigger knife then a pocket knife. This is to protect her against sexist men that dress up as wolfs and are sexual
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