An Elegant Essay on Eco-feminism: Desire and Nature in The Company of Wolves

The Company of Wolves is a story of parody by Angela Carter, one of the most celebrated feminist English writers in the 20th Century, on the fairy tale classic The Little Red Riding Hood. It explores profoundly the complicated relations between men, women and nature, rightly resonating with the theories of the rising eco-feminism by criticizing the oppression of patriarchal culture and anthropocentrism on women and nature. However, its perspective being much larger than simply destructing the andro-centric dualism between men and women on which the patriarchal culture is based, the story reveals with a hopeful foresight that both men and women are victims of such a dualistic structure. It also believes that the liberation of female desire and the liberation of male desire by female desire will produce harmony and balance between human beings and nature, and the bright future of an ecological civilization lies right in this harmony and balance.