Comparison Of Little Red Riding Hood
Fairy tales are universal stories and were often told to send messages, especially to children. The purpose of these stories is to instil moral values into children in an entertaining way. The stories “Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault” and “Little Red Cap” by the Brothers Grimm tell the same fairy tale to convey similar messages of young girls listening to their elders and not trusting all strangers. This is done through fairly tale conventions like plot structure, icons, themes of innocence, and gender roles.
Both of the stories follow similar plot structure in that Little Red runs into the wolf and goes through the forest. Also, both follow a traditional format(exposition, rising, action, and climax) and both have an icon. However, they also vary to some extent in the plot structure. Little Red and her Grandmother are killed by the wolf in the Perrault version, whereas in Grimm, they're saved by the huntsman. This is evident when her mother tells her to go and gives her specific direction on how to behave before she embarks on her journey in the Grim version; however, in Perrault’s version, she just tells her to go. The Perrault (1999) version has a more sinister overtone. The wolf just hides: “He closed the door and lay down on …show more content…
The color red embedded in the cap and hood attract danger as well as represent sexuality. The young girl represents coming into womanhood and being an attractive women for the first time, but she doesn’t know how to deal with it since she has never experienced it before, so she has sexuality that attracts the predatory “wolf”. In both versions, the hood and the cap serve the purpose to cover her hair as hair is said to have some attraction and/or sensuality to it. In Perrault’s version, the message was to stay away from strangers, therefore, the hood represented a false sense of security in spite of her mother’s
Both of the stories follow similar plot structure in that Little Red runs into the wolf and goes through the forest. Also, both follow a traditional format(exposition, rising, action, and climax) and both have an icon. However, they also vary to some extent in the plot structure. Little Red and her Grandmother are killed by the wolf in the Perrault version, whereas in Grimm, they're saved by the huntsman. This is evident when her mother tells her to go and gives her specific direction on how to behave before she embarks on her journey in the Grim version; however, in Perrault’s version, she just tells her to go. The Perrault (1999) version has a more sinister overtone. The wolf just hides: “He closed the door and lay down on …show more content…
The color red embedded in the cap and hood attract danger as well as represent sexuality. The young girl represents coming into womanhood and being an attractive women for the first time, but she doesn’t know how to deal with it since she has never experienced it before, so she has sexuality that attracts the predatory “wolf”. In both versions, the hood and the cap serve the purpose to cover her hair as hair is said to have some attraction and/or sensuality to it. In Perrault’s version, the message was to stay away from strangers, therefore, the hood represented a false sense of security in spite of her mother’s