Research in to the Play

Research 

The real 1832
William the fourth was the monarch on the throne.
The channel tunnel wasn't open. It didn't start construction until 1873 and then opened in 1994.
The were no wolves in Europe.
Women would not be higher up than men in the social hierarchy. Men would have demeaned women. Women were not allowed to speak unless spoken to and they had to do exactly as they were told.
Young girls were required to know how to play and instrument, sing, do general house work.
Women were not allowed to handle weapons.


In the book (1832)
King James the third was the monarch on the throne.
The channel tunnel was open, people travelled by train to most places.
The were wolves all over Europe due to the channel tunnel being opened. The wolves caused so much bother and destruction as the would get on to the train and kill passengers and the driver.
Miss Slycarp has a higher place in society than Mr Grimshaw. He tends to her every wim and does exactly as he is told.
One persons opinion was that ever young girl should be able to cook, clean, sing and shoot.



Themes

• Greed- Miss Slycarp and Mr Grimshaw as characters were extremly greedly as when it came to the will of Sir Willoughby, she wants to leave everything in Sir Willoughby possetion and the house to her. Mrs Briskett's character was naturally greedy as quiet a few times in the performance she would either mention or be eating some form of food.
• Deceit- Miss Slycarp manages to devise everyone the play to thinking that she is trust worthy and that she is a nice. By the end of the play everyone realises that she is a sick, twisted, horrible women who could not be trusted. 
• The evil that people do- Mrs Slycarp in the play never does any good at all, first she deceives Sir Willoughby into thinking she is to be trust with her daughter, niece, the house, pretty much everything in his posstion. She ships the girls off to a school which as Bonnie describes 'it was no better than a prison' She sells all of Bonnie's toys, she pays the caption of the boat that Bonnie's Mother and Father are aboard to set sail with a boat that was in such ill condition that there was no doubt in anyone mind that it would sink.

Metaphors 

The Wolves of Willoughby Case has many metephors but the main one is the wolves are not really wolves they are actually the evil characters in the play such as Miss Slycarp, Mr Grimshaw, Mrs Briskett ect. Each time an evil act is in place no matter the size the wolves would almost always appear during the time of the act. The presence of the wolves is supposed  to add an essence of fear to the piece because the bring a bad omen with them as to the evil characters. 

There was also the metaphors for cheese in the play. Cheese represented greed. Miss Slycarp would not allow James to permit the girls with any form of cheese, Mrs Briskett had a cupboard full of cheese and anyone who told her a tale that would get another student into trouble she would give them some cheese, Mr Grimshaw who in the play notes is described as big and heavy man would quiet a few times have a little speech on cheese for example in the letter scene when James is given a letter from Bonnie and asked to deliver it to Dr Moren but before he gets the chance to make for the door, he hears Mr Grimshaw entering and talking about the different types of cheese that he has just ingested only moments before.