Is Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood Relevant to the Modern World?

It claims that it is bad to be naive and gullible as there will be bad consequences. During this time the appearance of a young girl was essential as their goal was to attract rich nobles in order to be married off in an early age. In order to attract and marry of young it was also important for young girls to be celibates. Little Red Riding Hood starts being naive when the wolve asked her where she was going. She not only told the wolf where she was heading to but gave exact location saying, “She lives beyond the mill that you can see over there.

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

The story of St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell, demonstrates several types of individuals which a society holds. For instance, there is the independent type of character, they are the ones who do not like to go with the flow. In the story, it was portrayed by one of the main characters named Mirabella, the youngest among fifteen girls. Another, are those types that go along with the norms, they are the individuals who generally do what the society approves of, and no qualms associating with others. It was exemplified by another main character, Jeanette, the girl who easily adopted the human ways. Lastly, those who lies in the middle, these are the types of people whose eyes are open and could understand how to “read the map and navigate the ship”, which was put into character by the girl named Claudette, who’s the narrator as well. The portrayal of social classes propelled me to choose this story, which led me to analyze and restate for better understanding of the underlying messages which the author wants to relay to its readers. Though it has a bit of fantasy incorporated in the story by adapting the characters of werewolves, it even highlighted its purpose to explain the author’s ideas. For that, I inferred that the main argument which the author wants to share is that even a maverick in an extreme condition can be subject to conformity, given the chance for rehabilitation or training to become adapted to the norms behaviors.

In “A Barred Owl” by Richard Wilbur and “The History Teacher” by Billy Collins, the authors both argue that innocence is necessary to cultivate the ideal child via their protective tones, deceptive plot, and contrasting rhyme schemes.

The folk tale of “Little Red Riding Hood” has numerous variations and interpretations depending on what recorded version is being read or analyzed. “Little Red Cap,” by the Grimm Brothers, and “The Grandmother,” as collected by Achille Millien, are different in numerous ways: the depth of the narrative structure, characters involved, length – yet, the moral lesson is largely unchanged between the two versions. One of the more glaring differences between the two versions is the way that the narrator and the actions of the characters are used to describe the young girl, female, and the wolf, male. Being either female or male are matters of biological makeup. The characteristics of femininity and masculinity that are associated with being

Adults realize that despite Cinderella’s charismatic traits, Cinderella’s behaviour in Perrault’s tale is not acceptable for today’s modern western woman.

For centuries, people have heard of and passed down the well-known story about Little Red Riding Hood. The original version, written by Charles Perrault, has been told and passed down from generation to generation. Over the years, however, Perrault’s version has been taken by hundreds of other writers and has faced a number of different twists and turns, occasionally facing a whole new plot and outlook. For example, after reading Perrault’s version and “The Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter, the reader is able to conclude that even though both stories are different, they contain some forms of similarities as well.

Consequences, however, need not be always negative. Angela Carter’s short story ‘The Company of Wolves’ explores belonging and consequences of belonging through the reinterpretation of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale. In Carter’s version, the Red Riding Hood character has agency unparalleled in any other telling of the tale. In the climax and resolution of the short story, the text is obviously heavily influenced by second-wave feminism (the text was written in 1979, over a decade since Germaine Greer’s groundbreaking ‘The Female Eunuch’).

In the past, men and women had distinct roles that they had to follow in their everyday lives, where women would be in charge of housework and caring for the children, while the husband would be at work. Even though time has passed, these issues surrounding gender and power have not. Gender roles are socially constructed by society, creating a binary between men and women, where women are inferior to men. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s story, “Ash Girl” depict women as being weak and passive characters. Angela Carter’s story, “The Company of Wolves” reinforces the Grimm Brothers’ ideas about gender roles and male dominance by focussing on the treatment and behaviour of female characters and the idea of marriage, but through a more violent approach.

This shows us that the mother is already aware of Little Red Riding Hood’s curiosity and bad behaviours. She expects her daughter to forget about her sick grandmother and give into her Id, which she does. Little Red Riding Hood has the primitive mind of a baby – all Id -- guided by her needs and feelings. She does not think about the consequences of her actions and follows only one rule: “the pleasure principle”. She does not think about the outcome of her decisions in a world of reality, but instead in her own world ruled by pleasure.

Charles Perrault’s Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper was published in 1697. It is considered to be one the most prevalent reinterpretations of the classic story. Perrault’s version was “addressed largely to an adult and highly sophisticated audience” (Cullen 57). For this reason, Perrault seldom emphasizes the details of Cinderella’s mistreatment and instead shifts the stories’ focus on the moral and materialistic concerns related to his audience in order to “to please [his] aristocratic audience” (Tatar 189). Accordingly, Perrault portrayed Cinderella to be dependent, self-sacrificing, and “exhibits

Numerous short stories have been written throughout time, some are just for our imagination and entertainment; however, some of them are for teaching life lessons. The story Little Red Riding Hood was written partly to teach a lesson. In the French version, a young girl loses her virginity and is said to have “seen a wolf” that is what this story is based on. Little Red Riding Hood is about an innocent little girl who runs in to a wolf in the forest while she is on her way to her grandmother’s house.

Thesis statement: Although Angela Carter’s the company of wolves contains noticeable resemblances with its older variant, Charles Perrault’s little red riding hood, Carter prefers to reveal the relationship dynamics between men and women through subverting the traditional tale of a young naive girl who is tricked by the cunning big bad wolf. Instead, presenting the heroine’s true ambition, in which she wants to governor her own incarceration into damnation. In several instances of metaphors, foreshadowing, and ironic devices, she is revealed to be antagonist rather than the protagonist of Carter’s story, therefore reshaping the classical notion of little red riding hood into a feminist retelling of a girl attempting to gain control of their own narrative.

In Carol Ann Duffy’s “Little Red Cap,” taken from her collection The Worlds Wife, Duffy incorporates her feminist views on life to help develop Red-Cap’s character into an independent woman. In her work, Duffy intends to illuminate for the audience that woman are more powerful than they are perceived by society. In the poem, she writes about a young girl at the peak of her childhood, who is about to enter into the next phase of her life. The young, inexperienced girl describes the beginning of her transformation into adulthood after losing her innocence to “The Wolf.” The loss of her innocence contributes to the realization that she no longer needs an old, no good wolf. She gains the courage and reflects on how her life changes dramatically after her departure from the wolf. The poem “Little Red-Cap," written in The World’s Wife, closely relates to certain aspects of the original fairy tales written by The Grimm Brother and Charles Perrault. Duffy’s version of “Little Red Cap” is a rewrite of the original fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood.” Duffy incorporates her strong feminist views by allowing Red-Cap to initiate her encounter with the wolf and to use him for gaining knowledge for her career and sexual desires. These aspects contribute to the development of Red-Cap’s character into a more independent woman to contradict the oppression of women in the past and present generations, and allowing her to offer suggestions for women in the future.

The fairy tales we all read when we were young seemed so innocent but a second look at a older age they turned out to be filled with some shocking details that we all missed. The Little Red Riding Hood tale is one of the earliest ones that I was told as a child and it was something that taught not only me but many others. As I re-read that fairy tale there were many things that shocked me because I was not aware of it before then. In the story Riding Hood’s mother ask her to take food and some other things to her grandmother who lives in the next village over. In this story it does not specify how old riding hood is but I can only assume that she is at a young age because of the name that she goes by which is Little Red Riding Hood. At this point I was shocked because why in the world would any good mother send her young daughter all alone to her grandmother's house in the next village over with the only path leading that way is through a thick dense forest. This is at very beginning of the story and already there was something that was a little