Wolf (character of tale)

See also: Wolf (homonymy)

The wolf is a character of Conte in the tradition. In the fairy tale, the wolf often appears as discharge system of the anguish that it generates. Indeed, nowadays, the wolf is rather a disseminated species but with the Moyen-âge the wolf was one of popular great fears. In other accounts, it can conversely seem a making safe and guardian figure.

Nowadays, demystified, the wolf is often shown in an ironic way, and is especially used to change the glance on the other, not without tenderness.

Figures of the wolf

Negative figures

Positive figures

Tales and stories of wolf

Tradtionnels

Contemporary

Analyzes

  • In the Little Red Riding Hood of Charles Perrault, the wolf incarnates the male figure as a sexual predator. The young girl with the doors of adolescence, testing a fear interfered curiosity, will come to join the wolf in the bed and will be devoured. The author presents it like “accomplice the wolf” . The word of accomplice comes from Jean of the Fountain, which qualifies thus certain animals (the fox, the wolf), for better announcing of it the smartness and the absence of moral scruples. Tex Avery will take again the character of the Wolf - sexual predator and will modernize it.

  • In the Tom Thumb , the Wolf incarnates with the Ogre the childish fears related to the Oral stage (Sigmund Freud), where the phantasms turn around the idea to eat and be eaten.

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