Little Red Riding Hood Comparison Essay

Rotkäppchen, Little Red-Cap, Little Red Riding Hood, there as so many different names for this story and this character. Just as the villain in Little Red’s tale has been called a wolf, a werewolf, and in NBC’s television show Grimm, it is even called a Blutbaden. This children’s fairy tale has been rewritten in screenplays, stage plays, books, songs, and poetry. But no matter what the characters are called, or how the story is presented, it all comes back to the original tales that was written by the brothers Grimm for the children of Germany. In this particular instance I will be focusing on the aforementioned version of Little Red Riding Hood written by the brothers Grimm, as well as the retelling that is titled, “The Company of Wolves,”
How do the characters vary, who is the narrator? What has the author of the retelling done to make the story new and fresh, so that it stands out from the other retellings that are published, and allows it to become a literary staple when studying the original tale, as opposed to many retelling that fall between the cracks and are forgotten by the literary community. More often than not, the way that a story is told or who the narrator of the story is, is an important factor to the success of a literary works. For the Grimm fairy tale there is no defined narrator, it is this faceless being that is telling you the story like someone might narrate a situation that they are looking in on. No one that is a character within the story is telling the tale. Which in my opinion allows for a lot more freedom when telling the story to children, which is what the Grimm wrote their fairytale for, they wrote their stories to be told to the children of Germany. Have no definitive narrator allows for many children to become enthralled with the narrator’s inflections, the different voices they may give the characters within the story, as well allow for children to experience the story in a new way, every time it is told by a new