In the contemporary teen film “Red Riding Hood (2011)” the director, Catherine Hardwicke explores the female adolescents voyage of personal freedom, love, power and Heroism. Red Riding Hood constructs a cinematic landscape to celebrate the liberating journey of heroine, Valerie. Adolescents today, similar to Valerie have a yearning for independence. They desire the freedom to do as they please and make their own choices. The film displays this obsession through the protagonist Valerie. Hardwicke is able to connect with today’s modern audience through the portrayal of Valerie as a heroine who escapes her father’s restrictions and embarks on her life of freedom, with her werewolf lover, Peter. Valerie inspires adolescents with her rebelling …show more content…
She is forbidden to speak her mind, make plans for her own life and even venture out of the town into the forest. Red riding hood journey’s from the limiting boundaries of her home and ventures into the forest where she not only finds escape from these limits but also undergoes inspiring transformations. Travelling this forbidden path to be with her lover is a rebellious move on Valerie’s behalf. The further into the forest that Red Riding Hood travels, the more spacious and panoramic her views and paths become. Valerie shakes off the restrictions of the town and it is where she finds a measure of freedom, in contrast to the cramped and claustrophobic town that Hardwicke has created. This perception created within the film, that Valerie is happier, without being imposed by her parents restrictions, reflects the desire for independence that many adolescents have today and causes them to side with Valerie as a courageous …show more content…
Valerie refuses the terms it sets and escapes into the wild. In the forest, she is able to access and express violence, desire-actions and anger and emotions ordinarily deemed forbidden for the young girl to express. But rather than being punished for expressing these taboo emotions and violating the restrictions that forbid Valerie going into the forest, Hardwicke’s fairy tale rewards its heroine with a romantic union, influencing teens that they too will be rewarded for their independence. The film celebrates such unruly travel, as not only a necessary act for Valerie to undertake to discover and kill the big bad wolf; it is also represented as a pleasurable journey. As Valerie strays from the path, having found both agency and romance on the fringe of the forest, Valerie finds an independent space to inhabit and chooses the wolf lover that she wants. The film exploits the geography of the fairy tale forest to tell a story of female power and heroism. Hardwicke’s film rewrites and enhances Red Riding Hood’s wayward journey into the forest, representing it as a positive, satisfying and empowering achievement for the heroine. In doing so, she is reinforcing teenagers within society to embark on a journey similar to that of Valerie’s, in order for them to reach the ideal state of freedom and
“I've told her and I've told her: daughter, you have to teach that child the facts of life before it's too late” (Hopkinson 1). These are the first three lines of Nalo Hopkinson's short story “Riding the Red”, a modern adaptation of Charles Perrault's “Little Red Riding Hood”. In his fairy tale Perrault prevents girls from men's nature. In Hopkinson's adaptation, the goal remains the same: through the grandmother biographic narration, the author elaborates a slightly revisited plot without altering the moral: young girls should beware of men; especially when they seem innocent.
Behind Annie’s friendship with The Red Girl lies a hatred for the British colonials. The Red Girl doesn’t have to attend the British schools or adorn the British uniforms. She does not even have a proper name. The Red Girl teaches Annie about a world outside of her mother’s control that Annie had yet to discover.
Many short stories have been written throughout time. Many are just for entertainment, but many of them are for teaching a lesson. Little Red Riding Hood was written partly to teach a lesson. In France, a girl that loses her virginity is said to have “seen a wolf.” That is what this story is based on. Little Red Riding Hood is about a little girl that runs in to a wolf in the forest as she is on her way to her grandmother’s house. Her grandmother was ill and her mother baked some food to make her feel better, in which Little Red Riding Hood was taking to her grandmother. When she met the
Jeannette family has move many times to find a place to live. Jeannette’s father and mother always left the front door and the back door open at night. To Jeannette that is very dangerous, because she don’t even know who may get in the house at night. “ Once night when I almost ten, I was awakened by someone running his hands over my private parts. At first it was confusing . lori and I slept in the same bed, and i thought maybe she was moving in her sleep. I groggily pushed the hand way”(103) . The moments Jeannette realizes a man who gets into her room. Instead screaming and scare. She yells and quickly kick the man’s hand. By that time Brian runs into the room to help Jeannette ,but the man bolts out the door. Jeanette and Brian chasing for him , but he disappears around the corner. Jeannette tries to search for him for a few blocks, and then she gets back home. It’s all about her parents too subjective. Through that story tell us Jeannette is a strong woman. She knows what she needs to do to protect herself; although she is only ten years old , and it's dangerous . These things are happening to her to make her become a brave lady. jeannette realizes that live in this world she can't be
who always been deprived of father-figure, she feels the need to acquire attention from boys in
The second point explains how the plot brings ideas about gender, understanding the actions through the dialogues between the different characters. The tale describes the task that Little Red Riding Hood is given by her mother when she is said to go to her grandmother's house by herself in "another village" which refers to a far away place; it shows the ignorance of the mother to send a little girl alone without any warning; although in Grimm's tale the mother gives the child a very detailed warning where it is visible that the girl is less able to think and realize the danger by herself. This action demonstrates the danger for the girl to go alone since she can be persuaded by a stranger and fall in unfortunate consequences, in this case she is eaten by the wolf. Meanwhile,
In 2005 the tale was drastically changed in the movie Hard Candy by Brian Nelson, directed by David Slade. Red Riding Hood was a 14-year-old girl who meets a man online and convinces him to meet up. She goes home with him and when he falls asleep. He wakes tied up to accusing him of being a pedophile. In this version, the girl tricks the wolf and goes from being the hunted to being the hunter. Symbolizing the feminist revolution that takes place during the 20th century. It also touches on the dangers of the internet and chatrooms. This shows the top fears for parents of modern
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
This affects how Jeannette views her life, and as a result, she wants to have a better life than
Marie is from a reservation that discouraged her to find herself in a city full of white people. The white people that she interacts with gives a stereotype that whites are selfish and she has no sympathy for them. Others around her see her as mischievous and a sense of neglection to reality, “Ms. Polatkin, I hardly see how the murder of one poor man has anything to do with the study of Native American literature” she savors the moment that white people are getting what they deserve (Alexie 61). While being an Indian women she was stubborn and got what she wanted. The miscreatiny of Justin Summers death was caused by Marie and her taste for fully manipulating someone, “Women kill with knives” her aggression got the best of her of (Alexie 332). She wants to feel important and heard by others so she protests and goes to dances to embrace her full voice. The killer makes a statement every time they strike because it shows resistance and disobedience. In society sometimes dancing his frown apart in comparison to killing, “the killer plans on dancing forever” Marie will dance and kill forever. In every woman there are motherly instincts whether it is to care for someone such as a child or if it is being disappointed in someone and wishing for better Marie expresses her care of the young boy Mark Jones by returning him to his home unharmed. Curiosity can haunt the mind and lead others into
Firstly, Munro displays society’s weak and stereotypical view of women through the protagonist’s mother. The mother acts exactly as society expects girls to, staying inside the house, cooking and cleaning. For example, the mother “did not often come out of the house unless it was to do something – hang out the wash or dig potatoes in the garden.” (43) indicating that her sole purpose was to be inside the home. However, although women are expected to be weak and silenced, the protagonist opposes herself to society’s expectations. While most girls are expected to help their mother in the kitchen and stay inside, the protagonist prefers to “help my father when he cut the long grass, and the lamb’s quarter and flowering money-musk, that grew between the pens. He cut with the scythe and I raked into piles.” (43) Due to the protagonist preferring to work outside with her father it makes her mother feel as though, “It’s not like I (she) had a girl in the family at all.” (44) which is evidence that the protagonist defies gender conventions by participating in male-oriented tasks. Munro expresses the protagonist’s unconventionality through the use of symbolism in Flora the horse. Flora is viewed as, “given to fits of violent alarm, veering at cars and even at other horses, but we loved her speed and high-stepping, her general air of gallantry and abandon.” (44) Whereas, the other horse Mack, is described at “slow and easy to handle” (44) The inclusion of the comparison amongst Mack and Flora is to show the reader that Flora’s wild and brave personality is not common and is seen as unconventional which represents the protagonist and her separation from the norm.
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.
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.
When imaging the ideal audience of fairytales, children are quick to come to mind, although, our perception of Little Red Riding Hood as an innocent fable is far from the truth. Alternatively, the origins of this story are derived from Italo Calvino’s “The False Grandmother”, a story immersed in symbolism and metaphorical symbols intended strictly for a mature audience. The preceding tale was “Little Red Cap “written by Charles Perrault and then later the “Little Red Riding” written by the Brothers Grimm. Although the details of these tales vary, they all maintain similar storylines. The stories revolve around the young female character Little Red Riding Hood who is sent off on a mission to bring her grandmother a basket of goods. During her adventure she encounters a wolf who engages in a hot pursuit to eat both the Grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood, only to succeed in the earlier rendition of the story. In this essay I will prove that when the Grimm’s Brothers and Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood stories are critically analyzed, it becomes evident that they are inappropriate tales for children as they exemplify the consequences of a minor transgression by Little Red Riding Hood as being the misleading cause of the violence and seduction that occurs thereafter.
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.