'Little Red Riding Hood: Rated R'

Carl-Heinz Mallet in "Little Red Riding Hood: Rated R" applies psychoanalytic criticism to evaluate the relationship between male and female characters. The wolf who is the only male character in the text presents with all the desires and characteristics a man has especially on sexual desire. Mallet mentions the moral of the story, "Little Red Riding Hood" means to give a message on how sexual behavior is considered to be wicked. From the detail, little red riding hood is a naive and innocent girl who doesn't afraid talking to a male stranger. Mallet reveals that the little girl is acting innocent because the mother tells her don't leave the path, but she apparently ignores her mother by talks to the wolf and walks into the forest. Little red
Mallet states that little red riding hood shares similar trait with her grandma and mother that they are women without men and show they haven’t conduct sexual relationship for a long time. The kinship between them reveals psychoanalytic criticism that one’s action is resulting from another one’s unconscious desire. The mother is the daughter of the grandma, and little red riding hood is the daughter of the mother where each of them carries expectations from their mothers. From the text, it mentions "Indirectly, Red Riding Hood's mother satisfies some of her sexual needs in the character of the grandmother. But, in addition, the mother seeks vicarious fulfillment through her daughter, with whom she identifies herself" (Mallet 9). The father of little red riding hood never appears in Perrault's version of the story which implies to the loneliness from the mother. The wolf eats the grandma who shows her satisfaction of sex from man and fulfillment of her daughter's sexual need from the absence of a husband. The grandma and the mother are each other’s second identities that they share feelings, and one of them accomplishes action can fill up another’s needs. Similarly, little red riding hood shares the bond with her mother, and she carries her mother's expectation of attracting the wolf. According to the text, it mentions "...the one expressed in words, to "walk decently" and stay out of trouble, and the underlying, unspoken message, to go out and seduce the wolf of her mother's vicarious pleasure" (Mallet 9-11). The author suggests little red riding hood's conflict with self and her mother is her another side of self that wants her to experience the sex. Little red riding hood's experience in sex is same as her mother having sex with the wolf in the little girl's body. The expression of the superego,