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    A Comparison of Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault and Little Red Cap by the Brothers Grimm      The stories ?Little Red Riding Hood,? by Charles Perrault, and ?Little Red Cap,? by the Brothers Grimm, are similar and different. Moreover, both stories differ from the American version. The stories have a similar moral at the end, each with a slight twist. This story, in each of its translations, is representative of a girl?s loss of innocence, her move from childhood or adolescence into

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    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

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    “Little Red-Cap” or “Little Red Red-cap” In the folktale of “Little Red-Cap” there are gender roles that were characterized in every version that was ever written. In this folktale we can begin analyzing that it was created specifically to target the female gender, but mainly young girls and elderly women. In almost every folktale women are portrayed to be vulnerable, helpless, kindhearted and naïve. There are many versions of this folktale and in every version that was written the females are portrayed

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    The History Teacher, Little Red Cap, and The Serpent to Adam introduce to our current culture turning points of losing innocence and entering adulthood. The History Teacher, hesitant to teaching his students about the cruelness of history, kept his students from experiencing exposure to reality. Little Red Cap encounters a wolf on her way to her grandmother's house who takes advantage of her and exposes her to unfortunate aspects of the real world. Eve, a character from the Serpent to Adam, took

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    The story of Little Red Cap also shows the negative consequences of the Grimm’s ideas of a child’s distractible nature and a girl’s vanity. The wolf tricks Little Red Cap to stray off the path into the beautiful forested. Little Red Cap, seeing the beauty of the forest, “ran off the path and plunged into the woods to look for flowers. And each time she plucked one, she thought she saw another even prettier flower and ran after it, going deeper and deeper into the forest” (94). She “plunges” immediately

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    Little Red Cap Little Red Cap, gained the nickname after her lovely grandmother gave her a red velvet cap as a present. She was a really sweet girl, and everyone who knew her liked her. One day her mother called on her, and instructed her to take a basket of goods over to the sick grandmother’s house, who lived out in the woods. She reminder her not to get off path on the way to the village, and Red Cap promised to obey her mother. On the way to grandmas, Red Cap encounters with a wolf, who starts

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    today in many different fields, including literature analysis. “Little Red Riding Hood”, written by Perrault in the 17th century, as well as in “The Little Red Cap”, written by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century, are both famous folktales turned fairy tales about a young girl’s encounter with a cross-dressing wolf. The tale makes the clearest contrast between the safe

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    (Anne Hathaway), the bad (Little Red Cap) and the downright ugly (Mrs Beast). This essay will explore the themes and motifs duffy exploits and question impression left by the collection. Little Red Cap In Little Red Cap the protagonist embarks on her personal journey from an impressionable innocent child to an independant accomplished woman. Endeavoring to escape the expectations of a predictable life at ‘the factory’ (Duffy, 2015, p2-3) and ‘allotments’ Red Cap ventures - perhaps naively - into

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    Expectations and Little Red Riding Cap. Firstly, I will present to you the meaning and definition of Formalization. From there I will introduce the tale of Great Expectations, giving a detailed summary of the book and its themes. Then I will show the different examples of formalization within the tale and how this literary technique aids the reader in understanding the narrative. For the second half of this essay, I will then delve into the Brothers Grimm’s telling of Little Red Riding Cap, where I will once

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