Comparing and contrasting "The Company of Wolves- by Angela Carter and "The Waiting Wolf- by Gwen Strauss.
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Both Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves- and Gwen Strauss's "The Waiting Wolf- are based on the fairytale, Little Red Riding Hood. They focus on gender roles that were accepted by the society of the late twentieth century. This essay will discuss the perspectives the two texts have regarding gender roles and establish how it is incorporated in the texts by analyzing certain aspects according to Nick Peim's formula for textual analysis (1993: 6).
The narrative perspective of a text refers to the point of view from which it is narrated. An outsider relates the events in "The Company of Wolves-, but a character, the wolf, relates the events in "The Waiting Wolf-, giving him the opportunity to express his emotions. He provokes sympathy from the reader by saying, "at this moment I do not like myself- (l. 30), and explaining his behavior as being in his nature when he says, -I was meant to stalk her- (l. 8). On the other hand, the wolf in "The Company of Wolves- does not get the opportunity to express his emotions or explain his behavior. Carter, an outsider, classifies a wolf as being "as cunning as he is ferocious- (1993: 46). Thus, Strauss and Carter have different attitudes towards the wolf. Strauss is more sympathetic, because he realizes the wolf behavior is in his nature.
According to Peim, "The ideology of the text is to do with how the text seems to represent the world- (1993: 9). It also refers to the meaning that a society gives to a text. Both Strauss's and Carter's versions of Little Red Riding Hood focus on gender roles that the society of the twentieth century accepts. The original fairy tale emphasizes the belief that men are stronger than women, in other words, women are dependent on men to save them; an attitude the society had in the sixteenth century, when the fairy tale originated.
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