Wolf Alice

Quotes

- ‘the corners of his bloody chamber’ - room of clothes where Duke’s prey live

- ‘it showed us what we could have been’

- ‘her pace is not our pace’

- ‘the wise child who leads them all’

Characters

- Duke

- ‘his eyes see only appetite’

- ‘he is white as leprosy’

- Wolf Alice

- ‘not wolf or woman’

- Language

- Carter quickly allies herself with the reader and separates Wolf-Alice - ‘her pace is not our pace’

- Religious reference to Garden of Eden - ‘wise child who leads them all’

- Duke is ‘cast into the role of the corpse-eater’ - not the whole truth?

- ‘She could not put her finger on’ - finger in italics, reminds us she is human

- Weather/setting

- Duke’s castle - Gothic reinterpretation of the fairytale castle

- ‘Moony metamorphic weather’ - setting mirrors Duke

- Presence of the moon - time, menstruation, Gothic night time, when the Duke is awake

- Graveyard settings

- Dominant males

- Duke - not a real man, doesn’t cast a reflection, doesn’t have a soul, does have physical strength, doesn’t talk to her - ‘separate solitudes’

- Passive females

- Wolf-Alice is a strong female, physically, and becomes intellectually stronger throughout the story

- Supernatural

- Duke is a werewolf/vampire

- Superstition/religion

- ‘Young husband’ fills a church with silver bullets, holy water, ‘bells, books and candles’