Perrault's Red Riding Hood

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.

Regardless of time and space, revolutions bleed red. In Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood,” the wolf eats Little Red Riding Hood. Critics claim that Perrault’s moral blames Little Red Riding Hood similar to how the victim is often blamed for rape. Similar to this, Cinderella and the Little Mermaid are criticized for suffering passively for a prince. Their suffering, however, also breathes life into the characters and contributes to a strong character development. Although many fairy tales, specifically “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Cinderella,” and “The Little Mermaid,” are accused as anti-feminist works, all of “Little Red Riding Hood’s” versions serve as a feminist outlet for women regardless of a time period’s context.

Red takes action, goes against the social fairy tale norms. There are no huntsmen in the movie, rather instead, she takes in protection and attacks the wolf herself, starting off with mace. The little girl is portrayed to be aggressive than passive, sassy, has an attitude, and is a brat. Other than being passive, Red is considered to be smart. She is aware of the conflicts surrounding her and not to trust strangers, especially the big bad wolf that is following her. Alike being her grandmother, Red too is an adventurous female. For Red seeks for an adventure in her life, wanting to live outside of the woods and explore the world away from the safe path. During Hoodwink, Red shows a daring unlike what Grimm and other fairy tales have shown. Red goes on adventure before entering into Granny’s house by taking various activities a like skydiving. Hence, throughout history to modern day, contemporary tales of Little Red Cap has adapted from its traditional to anti-traditional role in women. Modern fairy tales involves female characters to take a hold of action instead of waiting for a male

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.

"Riding The Red"at first glance is a simple narrative with a grandmother telling a story about a wolf, but with further analyzation the two themes of first love and innocent become very clear. The author’s repetition of certain words like blood and dance directs your attention to a deeper meaning hinting and connections to the "Little Red Riding Hood" which reflects back to the underlining message of what happens when a girl grows up.

In our world today, people happily expose children to fairy tales, but as those kids grow up and discover the hidden messages inside the stories, they are often provoked with different emotions. I recently experienced this when reading Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Little Red Cap,” and Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood.” Due to my new maturity and knowledge, I was able to interpret different pieces of the authors’ works in new ways. Their strategic use of pathos led me to be overcome with a feeling of worry, disappointment, and frustration. Despite the fact that they both induced me to experience similar emotional responses, I found myself responding more strongly to one than the other.

The story of "Little Red Riding Hood", has been written by many different people from the time it began to present time. I intend to discuss and explore two versions of this tale, one written by the Grimm brothers and the other one written by Perrault, to compare the sexual symbolism of the tale. I will first like to discuss about the major resemblances and alterations between the two versions by associating and contrasting the plots. Then, I will go into more detail, explaining the sexual symbolism in Perrault’s story, as well as the family-friendly symbols in the Grimms’ version of the tale. At last, I will relate the role of women in the two versions and describe how desexualizing has transformed the fundamental moral of the story.

Throughout history, women have been portrayed in a variety of ways; by following a popular story that has been rewritten several times over the years, we can see this progression. “Little Red Riding Hood” was first written in 1697, and since then has been in a constant state of evolution and change (Elmore). We will be looking at the 1697 version of “Little Red Riding Hood” and comparing it to newer versions; this will give us a chance to see how attitudes towards women have changed over the years. So that we don’t confuse the different characters, we will explore “Little Red Riding Hood” one story at a time.

Little Red Riding Hood is a fairytale known worldwide about an innocent little girl and a big bad wolf, or so it seems. Deeper investigation into the hidden meanings of this age-old ever changing fairy tale reveals many different tales all together; where the character’s true intentions and character traits might surprise you. Little Red Riding Hood can be traced back to the 10th century. One of the oldest documented versions originated from Italy by Italio Calvino, called The False Grandma.

In her transformation of the well-known fable "Little Red Riding Hood," Angela Carter plays upon the reader's familiarity. By echoing elements of the allegory intended to scare and thus caution young girls, she evokes preconceptions and stereotypes about gender roles. In the traditional tale, Red sticks to "the path," but needs to be rescued from the threatening wolf by a hunter or "woodsman." Carter retells the story with a modern perspective on women. By using fantasy metaphorically and hyperbolically, she can poignantly convey her unorthodox and underlying messages.

Fairy tales have the ability to provide people of all ages an escape from their real lives and focus on something magical. Each tale masks the underlying morals and lessons with an adventure or task for the protagonist to embark upon. Both versions of the tale of Little Red Riding Hood organize gender, good vs. evil, and meritorious behavior based upon the century in which they were written. Depending upon the era, the message being sent to young readers is often harsh. For example, “Little Red Cap” by the Grimm Brothers and “Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault each focus on being responsible for one’s own actions, no matter if they are right or wrong.

Folktales has created men as the most powerful character in most stories but that does not mean always as there’s a difference in Grandmother’s tale and Little Red Riding hood. Different genders have different expectations according to their characteristics. The Red Riding Hood and Grandmother’s tale has produced ideas such as how a girl’s life is looked upon in the past and how the male has the upper hand in most situations according to the stories. This essay will argue about how the girl’s gender played a major role in the context of the story and how the wolf is represented by a male character and why the male is not always the most powerful character in all stories and the comparison

Conversely, Orenstein maintains that, by focusing on only the historical dimension of the tale as opposed to its larger social context, Darnton misses vital elements of the tale’s broader themes as well as the changes which occurred in the transition to the male-dominated written tradition. Orenstein begins by noting the wide breadth of oral cognates to “Little Red Riding Hood” which had been discovered across Europe and in Asia (Orenstein 69). Citing the work of folklorist Paul Delarue, she establishes that “Charles Perrault - whose 1697 text is the presumed source of the Grimms’ “Little Red Cap” - had dramatically revised the original folk tradition” (Orenstein 71). Most significantly, Orenstein observes - and criticizes Darnton’s lack of observation - that when authors began to put these stories onto paper, “the sense of female authorship - literally, female authority” (Orenstein 83) disappears from their tales. Fundamentally, Orenstein advances an interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood as a hero story whose “heroic heroine” (Orenstein 82), her cleverness, and most significantly her triumph over evil have all but vanished from the popular literary tradition.

Despite this, the cultural background has been adapted in both stories and each story holds a different comment on women and their identity. The Werewolf takes the folklore of the dangerous wolf and creates a bildungsroman journey about the usurping of the older generation. It retains several of Perrault’s iconic motifs; the path, the woods and the grandmother, however, it places the historically vulnerable child in a position of power. The Little Red Riding Hood character becomes the heroine of her own story and wields her knife in protection of herself as much as any male protagonists of fairy tales do. She is her own hero. Carter subverts the typical patriarchal idea that women, especially in fairy stories, are ‘victims’ and allows the young girl to be act aggressively when needed. This aspect of her character is alluded to as she wears ‘a scabby coat of sheepskin’, this refers to the well-known

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.