The werewolf symbolizes Europe’s uncivilized rural poor
Evidence
The werewolf, although not examined here, is a monster representing the uncivilized country folk of Europe—a symbol of primitivism, illiteracy, racial impurity, and the importance of social class. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 1279
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- XREF: The reader wants to map which Western anxiety each monster figure carries; this shows the werewolf as class/race anxiety — useful comparative category against the Muslim monster carrying religious/political anxiety.
Related
- The werewolf represents Europe’s own uncivilized rural lower classes. (similarity 0.95)
- European werewolves encoded class fears of uncivilized country folk (similarity 0.94)