RSSS 315 Tier 2: Fifteenth Week

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RSSS 315 (Tier 2) Fifteenth Week

• Vampires and Werewolves Slavic Folklore in Our
  Culture

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Mystery 1
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Mystery 2
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Mystery 3

• Wolf lover
• Name means Father Wolf
• Goal restore human predatory qualities
• Destroy the weak
• Fits of rage, chewing the carpets
• Herr Wolf as pseudonym
• Renamed Volkswagen factory Wolfsburg
• Favorite song Whos afraid of the big bad wolf?

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Armand Chapters 14-20

• Amazing developments
• Breathless pace
• Centuries pass by
• New homes

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Leading characters converge

• Lestat and Akasha
• Santino and Allesandra
• New stories

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Neil Jordan, 1950-
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Filmography

• Company of Wolves, 1984
• Interview with a Vampire, 1994
• Crying Game, 1992
• Good Thief, 2002
• Now Breakfast on Pluto

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Angela Carter, 1940-

• Feminist science fiction, stories, novels
• Co-author of screenplay
• Short story

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The film.
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What happened last time?

• Death of sister
• Trip to grandmothers
• Stories about wolves
• Fairy tale atmosphere

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Dream Sequences

• Occasional return to sleeping Rosalie
• Potential boyfriend
• Risky walk
• Gradual maturing

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Family responses

• Grandmother advice and envy
• Father let her go on her own, trust her
• Kill the threats
• Mother helps Rosalie in passage
• Explanations women can hold their own
• Men not uniformly wolves
• Bath scene

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Rosalies story

• Once upon a time.
• Status issues
• Danger of liaisons with men pregnancy
• Rosalies egg-little human (after she applies
  lipstick)
• Revenge breaking a mirror
• People revert to true selves
• Wolves grotesque scene

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MESSAGE

• She is aware of realitys dangers