Archetypes In The Company Of Wolves

Fairy tales, driven by contextual discourse, subvert archetypal patterns to undermine traditional values and beliefs, in turn evolving their traditional didactic nature. Driven by her contextual influence from second wave feminism, Angela Carter’s 1979 postmodern appropriation, The Company Of Wolves, supplants traditional archetypes in order to promote a challenge of gender roles and newfound perception of sexuality as natural and positive. Catherine Orenstein seconds this evolving appropriation in “Storytellers from the women’s perspective and beyond reclaimed the heroine… Recasting the women as brace and resourceful.” Carter begins to undermine the general perception of men as sexual predators during the opening anecdotes, evident in the