werewolf

• Here, take your father’s hunting knife; you know how to use it - werewolf
• she knew the forest too well to fear it but she must always be on her guard - werewolf
• The child had a scabbby coat of sheepskin to keep out the cold - werewolf


  goes against the typical princess attribute in many classic fairy tales. Her clothes have a practical purpose, to ‘keep out the cold’, opposed to them being to make her more attractive. This idea of practicality is a stereotypically masculine quality as the men are the ones who are outside and need to be protected from the harsh environment, whereas women were told to stay inside and make themselves presentable to their husbands and other men in society. 
• When she heard that freezing howl of a wolf, she dropped her gifts, seized her knife, and turned on the beast - werewolf
• The wolf let out a gulp, almost a sob, when it saw what had happened to it; wolves are less brave than they seem - werewolf


  The wolf’s role in this story is to represent male behaviour however it is shown to display typical feminine aspects such as when it let out ‘a sob’ and how it was ‘lolloping’ off after being attacked’. This is significant as it contrasts to the typical depiction of men being closed off to emotion and being mentally and physically strong. 
• The child wiped the blade of her knife clean on her apron, wrapped up the wolf’s paw in the cloth in which her mother had packed the oatcakes and went on - werewolf
• But it was no longer a wolf’s paw. It was a hand, chopped off at the wrist, a hand toughened with work and freckled with old age - werewolf
• By the wart, she knew it for her grandmother’s hand - werewolf
• they know the wart on the hand at once for a witch’s nipple; they drove the old woman, in her shift as she was, out into the snow with sticks - werewolf
• beating her old carcass as far as the edge of the forest, and pelted her with stones until she fell dead - werewolf