Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Call off the torches and pitchforks...she's a werewolf not a witch! What a relief.

So I was thinking The Werewolf may have the same structure as earlier versions of Little Red Riding Hood but actually the differences make it something entirely new.
In the original the girl is innocent and sweet whereas in this one she's got some balls. Then there's the wolf being a talking wolf, accepted as supernatural, but in this one the wolf is actually the grandmother in wolf form. And finally the ending is somewhat grimmer than the original in which the girl and grandmother are cut alive from the wolf's belly...highly unlikely but a happy ending nonetheless. But in Carter's version the superstitious locals stone the grandmother to death believing her to be a witch.
I had planned to write more but this was so long ago I can't bring myself to it.
Inabit.

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