Comparing Two Versions Of Little Red Riding Hood

A Comparison of Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault and Little Red Cap by the Brothers Grimm

For my essay I have chosen the following stories: Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf and Also The Three Little Pigs. In the story grandmamma was vulnerable and scared. Grandma opened the door against her better judgement. Grandma was weak and tough. She reminds me of my own grandma very kind against Red on judgement at times. She knew his grin was ill willed and allowed her to be eaten. The afraid kind lady should have never let her guard down. I can also remember a situation when my grandma who was put in the same position with one of our neighbors. Our neighbor sold my grandma some candy, a orange and a curling irons for twenty dollars. I made the neighbor give her back the twenty dollars. The neighbor for instance was the wolf and I would

Little red riding hood is about a girl on a trip to her sick grandmother’s house but she had met a wolf on her way there. There are many different versions of this story, the Perrault version and Grimm version. There was also a parody of Little Red Riding Hood called Hoodwinked!. In all of the stories they all start with a mother giving something to give to her daughter. For her daughter to travel into the forest to give her grandmother what her mother had made.

Comparing Little Red Riding Hood folktales is a multi tasks operation, which includes many elaborations on the many aspects of the story. Setting, plot, character origin, and motif are the few I chose to elaborate solely on. Although the versions vary, they all have the motif trickery, the characters all include some sort of villain with a heroin, the plot concludes all in the final destruction or cease of the villain to be, and, the setting and origins of the versions vary the most to where they are not comparable but only contrastable, if one can say that origins and settings are contrastable.

Argghhh yes, yes, I am the wolf from little red riding hood and yes, I know what you are thinking, I should be punished because “I ate Grandma” well not really. Wait till you hear my side of the story and then you will believe that I am fully innocent. I have been accused of eating Little Red Riding Hood’s Grandma and pretending to be someone that I’m not! How rude is it that someone would think I would do that! It’s a misunderstanding. I promise your honor, I am fully innocent!

Which is the better version of "Little Red Riding-Hood" for children, the Grimm version where Red gets rescued by the woodsman, or the Perrault version where Red is eaten up and left for dead at the end? Which version shall we include in our textbook, and why? Is it fair to college-level readers to include only German versions and no "original" French ones? Both the Grimm and Perrault versions of “Little Red Riding Hood” contain a considerable amount of violence. In “Little Red Riding Hood” there are several variations between the two stories, however, the Grimm version has a happy ending which I feel is more appealing to children and more acceptable to parents in our culture.

Red Riding Hood (RHH) is arguably one of the most famous fairy-tales. Told throughout Europe, this tale is folklore -a tradition perpetrated orally, representing a shared culture or way of life for a group or population – at its finest. Fairy-tales are harder to define –the most commonly accepted being a subcategory of folklore, intended for children, featuring unnatural creatures and/or requiring use of magic to resolve the situation (Harries, 2003). Any fairy-tale exists in multiple forms with a number of variations, but with certain traits making it recognizable. In the simplest version of RRH, a girl is told by her mother to bring her grandmother some food. Going through the woods, RHH meets the Wolf, who she confides in. The wolf distracts

Different authors in the past century made different versions of Little Red Riding Hood, but still have the same moral of the story. Similar to the Charles Perrault’s original version, Brothers Grimm story led further on to the story having Little Red and Granny to be saved by the huntsman. In the Brothers Grimm story, Little Red’s personal characteristic is similar to Charles Perrault since she is still a naive child learning her mistakes. However, in the Charles Maralles version, the cape saves the day. The cape in the story portrays as an enchanted golden hood. It saves Little Red from getting eaten. Although, this version is kind of brutal in which not only wolf’s mouth is burned from the hood, but the wolf is thrown into a sack by the grandmother and dropped into the well having the wolf to drown. Other than having the same character, Little Red Riding Hood, other authors decide to change the character to a different perspective like the author, Beatrix Potter. Potter created a similar story to Little Red Riding Hood, but changed the problem and character of the story. The story, “The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck”, explains that Jemima wants to lay her eggs away from the farm so she trust a fox to help her, but instead figured out that the fox was planning to eat her and the eggs. All of these different versions share the same moral of encounter strangers and being deceived by

As children, we grew up with the version that the wolf was the villain of the story of Red Riding Hood, so it is hard to deviate from that mindset. Furthermore, most people will immediately agree that the wolf clearly is the “bad” character. There are many stories that target the young demographic with wolves included in them. The “Big Bad Wolf” is a recurrent theme in many stories. Therefore, it is simple that we are inclined to continuously believe the wolf will always be the villain. The argument of the wolf being a villain or a hero can go either way-both sides have proper evidence. After all, it’s entirely perspective. I firmly believe that the version of the wolf’s perspective, where he was viewed positively, is a false account. It is difficult to make a proper conclusion on whether the wolf is a villain or hero, especially because both stories have personified the wolves.

Think about your favorite childhood story. Do you remember Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks? These two stories are about breaking and entering into someone else’s house. Have you ever thought about comparing and contrasting the two fairy tales? As you read on, we will determine some similarities and differences in decisions of the two legendary stories.

In the Brothers Grimm version of Little Red Riding Hood, she is walking to her grandmothers house through the woods when she encounters the wolf. Also, the wolf is sneaky and cunning. He talks to Red to learn where her grandmother lives so he can follow and eat them both. However, in Once Upon a Time, the people are already aware of the wolf. They are terrified because he has killed many people. This wolf is not sneaky and cunning. He is just big and ferocious. Furthermore, Grandma is

As I am doing my own version of Little Red Riding Hood, I made Mr. Wolf the victim of this world’s cruelty in my story. Mr.Wolf became very nice to Red Riding Hood, because the kind hearted little girl gave him some meat and a milk, when he is in the verge of starvation.

"Little Red Riding Hood" is disturbing because of the sexual premise of the tale. In the tale, wolves are considered the most dangerous creatures because they represent sexual predators. This dark tale relates to real events as it was written during a time when girls were said to have "seen the wolf" if they lost their virginity. Perrault disturbing incorporates the moral that children "do very wrong to listen to strangers" into the tale through the wolf's insidious actions.

In “The Company of Wolves,” Carter first describes the wolves, whereas Little Red Riding Hood describes Little Red Riding Hood and the setting of the story before coming to the wolf. Carter wastes no time in letting the reader know what type of character the wolf is, and that wolves have an evil nature. The very first line of her story says, “One beast and only one howls in the woods by night” (1400). She then describes the essence of what makes wolves as evil as they are. “The wolf is carnivore incarnate, and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do” (1400). In other words, wolves are meat eaters and they will settle for nothing less than flesh. Although Little Red Riding Hood also lets the reader know that wolves are evil creatures, the wolf is not introduced until the fourth line and the description is kept very brief. “The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red Riding Hood entered the wood, a wolf met her. Little Red Riding Hood did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him” (the Grimm Brothers). Similarly to the description of the wolf, the encounter between him and Little Red Riding Hood is also

In the multiple readings of the little red riding hood there were many small differences. Throughout every story there happens to be the predator (whether it’s a wolf, ogress, or bear), the little girl, as well as the sweet grandmother. Within the tales there is the basic story line of the typical little red riding hood; the wolf (predator) hunts little red (little girl) and through the chase manages to gobble up the grandmother as well. In most cases, the little girl manages to eliminate the predator; in another a huntsman’s saves both red and the grandmother. Although most times, the grandmother does not survive. Another variation includes multiple different characters being involved like: an aunt, the three little pigs, and another child.