TCOW

Question 1

forest assassins

Answer 1

metaphor emphasises predatory nature

Question 2

the wolf is carnivore incarnate

Question 3

it is winter and cold weather

Answer 3

harsh and hostile environment ignites pathetic fallacy and sense of danger

Question 4

step between the portals of the great pines

Answer 4

liminality and sublime setting in forest very gothic

Question 5

trapping the unwary traveller

Answer 5

entrapment, imprisonment, personification

Question 6

if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you

Answer 6

abhuman, symbol and motif for obedience moral in charles story

Question 7

the beasts would love to be less beastly if only they knew how and never cease to mourn their own conditions

Answer 7

invites us to sympathise

Question 8

the wolf may be more than he seems

Question 9

i wish i were a wolf again to teach this whore a lesson

Question 10

the forest closed up on her like a pair of jaws

Question 11

she is an unbroken egg; she is a sealed vessel

Question 12

she has her knife and she is afraid of nothing

Answer 12

fear makes vulnerable - gives power transgressing rules of patriarchy

Question 13

‘she knew she should never leave the path on the way through the wood or else she would be lost instantly’ - does not have ‘a compass’

Question 14

‘is it a bet?’ ‘what would you like? she asked disingenuously’ ‘a kiss’ ‘she lowered her eyes and blushed’

Question 15

‘off with his disguise’

Answer 15

duality

Question 16

‘his genitals, huge. ah! huge’

Question 17

‘ten wolves; twenty wolves’ ‘poor things’

Question 18

‘she stood up on tiptoe and unbuttoned the collar of his shirt’

Answer 18

active - past identity of passivity is gone now her ‘shawl and blouse’ is in the fire

Question 19

freely gave the kiss she owed him

Question 20

all the better to eat you with

Answer 20

intertextuality ‘the girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody’s meat’ refusal to be sexual object power and subversion ridicule

Question 21

all silent all still - reconciliation between predator and prey peace

Answer 21

sweet and sound she sleeps in granny’s bed, between the paws of the tender wolf - equal power dynamic