In class I brought up how science is in the novel can be used for good or evil. Professor Rybak stated that my reasoning was based on a “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument. I decided I had to look into this claim further. Jake repeatedly references war, violence, religion and […]
Cannibalism in The Last Werewolf is a topic we discussed a bit in class, and it’s a topic that comes up quite often throughout the book. Jake Marlowe eats human flesh at every full moon throughout the course of the book. He discusses that he has tried to abstain and only feed every other full […]
· If society can choose what is evil then evil is a human created concept. Hmm… not just a human made concept, which is to broad, but a socially made construct. Evil is something that social institutions tell us is wrong. Institutions like religion. This, of course is what the book is getting at, […]
Before Jake’s transformation into a werewolf he had class. No really, he was of the upper (echelon). Even at this point Jake had money, which as we’ve come to find out is very helpful to have when you live for centuries. Even after he becomes a werewolf, Marlowe manages to keep his class status […]
A simple answer to the title’s question is this: not the readers. The Last Werewolf is written in such a manner that readers can’t help but sympathize with the main character, the monster in question, the werewolf. From the first person narrative writing style to the logic and rationalization of Jake Marlowe’s actions to the […]
Image: wafitz A question that has come up while reading The Last Werewolf is ‘Do we separate the man from the beast/monster. The word were-wolf would seem to indicate that we do. If we break this down further, when we think of morality we rarely will associate it with the idea of a beast. When it comes […]
“But ought and I parted company when I murdered my with-child wife and ate her and carried on living. “ (Duncan, 121) Jacob Marlowe is a Monster. In The Last Werewolf Glen Duncan uses a very scientific measure of thinking for the main character. It is best to deal with my feelings for the text […]
Glen Duncan uses plenty of colorful and often dark language throughout the novel. But perhaps readers of The Last Werewolf are most disturbed by the outlandish claims towards The Beatles. Forget all that sex and violence, why so hard on the Fab Four? Okay maybe not everyone feels this way, but as a Beatles fan, […]