How successfully has Carter reimagined a traditional story and increased its appeal to the Modern Audience.

Carter’s version of her fairy-tale is reimagined from the original fairy-tale, as it is untraditional in the sense that experiences within are ‘overt’ – as they explore the dominance/ sexuality of life. This is shown within ‘The Company of Wolves’ as Carter explores the idea that one can benefit from control/ dominance of those around them – as the Girl is said to ‘prosper’ from the murder of her Grandmother. However, this in the sense of the traditional fairy-tale is not necessarily imagined, as it could be suggested to be now created in a more ‘overt’ sense – but that the morals of the tale simply remain the same, as the Girl within ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ too, although not shown, would prosper from leading the Wolf, although not meaning to, to her Grandmother’s House.

Furthermore, Carter too shows that her tale is simply there to make the ideas portrayed with the original fairy-tale more ‘overt’ – as the Gothic is similar, as the young Girl must still contribute, despite now not meaning to, to her Grandmother’s death. Both tales create the sense of the isolation of life, and the idea that one must care for themselves from a young age – which therefore employs the Gothic element of the duality of life, as they young Girl is just that, but yet she must fend for herself. Therefore, the Girl would inherently have two personalities – but cannot show this within ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, meaning that Carter attempts to show this in a more ‘overt’, but not different, way within her enhanced tale.

Within the context of Feminism, Carter does not truly again change the tale to fit into second-wave Feminism, as she, unlike Caroline Duffy in ‘Little Red Cap’, only allows the Girl to partly seduce the Wolf – which means that her tale is not truly differed to fit with the ideas of the period – meaning therefore it cannot truly be ‘modernised’. It is Duffy that truly could be sit to ‘modernise’ the original fairy-tale of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ as she shows the idea that the Woman is inherently powerful – as first of all the Girl in her tale is suggested to sleep with the Wolf, and then to take an ‘axe to the Wolf’ – which shows the all controlling power of the Woman, which links more to second-wave Feminism during the period than Carter’s attempt to show partial power does.

Overall, although Carter partially ‘modernises’ the original fairy-tale, she does not fully create the ‘modern’ fairy-tale, as within the context of the period it does not link to idea’s on Feminism that it should do if completely ‘modern’ – whilst too not being able to fully change the Gothic elements within the original, as Carter simply makes existing ideas ‘overt’, which therefore may be in a sense her ‘modernising’ the text as she attempts to show the fact that the original elements in a fairy-tale used to warn Children of dangers are furthering becoming prominent as time progresses.