WRITE AN ESSAY ON THE FOLLOWING
USE ALL 8 QUOTES TO EXPLAIN THE LIFE OF WOMEN
The essay has and supports an identifiable thesis statement with textual evidence.
The essay effectively applies class concepts regarding writing about literature
The paper is proofread and edited for minimal grammatical errors
Thesis statement:
Throughout Angela Carter’s short stories, “The Werewolf,” “The Company of Wolves,” “A Souvenir of Japan,” and “Black Venus,” the author explains the life of women, through her selection of characters, setting, and different perspectives throughout society.
Supporting evidence #1:
“ It went for her throat, as wolves do, but she made a great swipe at it with her father’s knife and slashed off its right forepaw.
Page number for supporting evidence #5: Page 211
Supporting evidence #2:
In a society where men dominate, they value women only as the object of men’s passions.”
Page number for supporting evidence #2: Page 31
Supporting evidence #3:
“He found me, I think, inexpressibly exotic. But I often felt like a female impersonator.”
Page number for supporting evidence #3: Page 31
Supporting evidence #4:
She sulked sardonically through Daddy’s sexy dance, watching, in a bored, fascinated way, the elaborate reflections of the many strings of glass beads he had given her tracking about avoe her on the ceiling. She liked the source of light but this was an illusion; she only shone because the dying fire lit his presents to her. Although his regard made her luminous, his shadow made her blacker than she was, his shadow could eclipse her entirely. Whether she had a good heart or not underneath, is anybody’s guesses; she had been raised in the School of Hard Knocks and enough hard knocks can beat the heart out of anybody.”
Page number for supporting evidence #4 Page 214
Supporting evidence #5:
“When she was on her own, having a few drinks in front of the fire, thinking about it, it made her break out in horrible hag’s laughter, as if she were already the hag she would become enjoying a grim joke at the expense of the pretty, secretly festering thing she still was. ”
Page number for supporting evidence #5 Page 235
Supporting evidence #6:
“Are you sure you love him?” “I’m sure I want to marry him,” I said.”
Page number for supporting evidence #6: Page 111
Supporting evidence #7:“
It was a bad joke, therefore, that, some centuries before Jeanne’s birth, the Aztec goddess, Nanahuatzin, had poured a cornucopia of wheelchairs, dark glasses, crutches and mercury pills on the ships of the conquistadores as they took their spoiled booty from the New World to the Old; the raped continent’s revenge, perpetrating itself in the beds of Europe. Jeanne innocently followed Nanahuatzin’s trail across the Atlantic but she brought no erotic vengeance — she’d picked up the germ from the very first protector. The man she’d trusted to take her away from all that, enough to make a horse laugh, except that she was a fatalist, she was indifferent.
Page number for supporting evidence #7 Page 235
Supporting evidence #8:
“She was in neither a state of innocence nor a state of grace.”
Page number for supporting evidence #8: Page 232
