94 ЛИТЕРАТУРОВЕДЕНИЕ DOI 10.24412/1829-0450-2024-2-94-105 Поступила: 01.04.2024г. УДК 81 Сдана на рецензию: 04.04.2024г. Подписана к печати: 20.05.2024г. THE POWER OF WOMAN IN ANGELA CARTER’S “THE COMPANY OF WOLVES” L. Madatyan The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA madatyanlusine@yandex.ru ORCID: 0000-0001-8824-527X ABSTRACT The article is devoted to the analysis of Angela Carter's “The Company of Wolves”. As a reviewed version of “The Red Riding Hood”, it vividly shows the author’s feminist ideology. She intends to illustrate the innate power of women and advocate for gender equality. The retelling is notable for its unique writing style characterized by unconventional punctuation, archaic lexical units, and rich similes. In her reproduction of the fairy tale “The Red Riding Hood”, Angela Carter preserves its distinctive structure and storyline, except for the opening, which serves as a well-written in- troduction to transformation. This sets the stage for exploring the inner strength of women in the second part of the narrative. Carter demonstrates the power of woman through her conscious attraction, depicting how she can save herself from a cruel death. Moreover, in “The Company of Wolves”, the author directly presents possible symbolic interpretations of “The Red Riding Hood”. Keywords: equal rights, the power of women, fairy tales, the passive role of a woman, werewolf. Introduction In recent decades, there has been much discussion about the passive role of woman in fairy tales. Some researchers argue that in fairy tales female characters are often portrayed as trapped and silenced, waiting for male figures to rescue them [1]. According to D. Haase, fairy tales deliberately weaken female characters, de- monize female power, and emphasize specific role models for males [2]. The reason for this phenomenon can be traced back to the 18th century when fairy tales gained popularity, their authors, first editors, and publishers were predominantly men. Therefore, they included in their works stories where women are depicted as weak and defenseless beings, unable to advocate for women's rights [3]. However, in the