Lessons For Next Generation Wandering along the way when trying to reach a destination gets most people into trouble or danger. Little Red Riding Hood’s mother told her to go straight to her grandmother’s house and not to talk to strangers on the way. Little Red Riding Hood disregarded her mother’s words and lingered. As a result, of dallying along her path, she put herself in danger with her own hands by talking and telling the Wolf where she’s going and where her grandmother lives. She trusted a stranger which caused her great amount of trouble. Little Red Riding Hood faced many challenges that can influences other children in the future who red or learned about her modern story. There are many different authors who rewrote the story …show more content…
Today’s modern telling of Little Red Riding Hood is a little different than the most famous one by the Grimm Brothers which is written specific for children As it said in the cartoon movie, “When she went out, the little girl wore a red riding cloak, so everyone in the village called her Little Red Riding Hood. One morning, Little Red Riding Hood was asked by her mother to go visit and deliver a basket to her grandmother,” (Little Red Riding Hood). Little Red Riding Hood was known by her red cloak in the village which was given by her grandmother. There’s one little part that changed in the story that was stated in the quote, which was Little Red Riding Hood’s mother asked her to go deliver a basket to her grandmother, but it did not say that the grandmother was sick as it was in the Grimm Brothers’ version. Also the movie stated the mother’s word to Red riding Hood, “Remember, go straight to Grandmother’s house and not amble along the way. Also please don’t talk to strangers! The woods are dangerous,” (Little Red Riding Hood). Even though her mother warned her not to stroll in the woods, Little Red Riding Hood did it anyway. She noticed some lovely flowers in the woods and she forgot her mother’s warning. The wolf ate Grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood, but the hunter saves the grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood inside the wolf’s stomach, and fills the wolf’s stomach of stones. Afterwards, Little Red Riding Hood learned her lesson and said, “Oh Grandma, I was so scared! I’ll never speak to strangers or dawdle in the woods again,” (Little Red Riding Hood). Finally, at the end of the story, Little Red Riding Hood learned the problem that caused all of these troubles to happen. Also, the moral was told by Little Red Riding Hood herself in the movie to the children. However, this image is mainly a projection of adults onto the world of children that would live up to
At first glance the characters Connie from “Where are you going? Where have you been?” and Little Red Riding Hood from the classic fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood” may seem to have nothing in common. However, from the start one can compare how much they actually have in common. Though these two characters are very different they are the same in many ways. Their story, from beginning to end, is similar. It is easy to see how alike and different they are with the description of Connie and Little Red Riding Hood’s lives, the relationship with their wolves, and their tragic endings.
Both short stories present a parallelism between one another. Parallelism is demonstrated within these two short stories when the antagonists of “Where Are You Going, Where have you been” and “Little Red Riding Hood” mask themselves to portray other figures to gain advantage of the girls. Both protagonists, Connie in ““Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” ” and the girl in the “Little Red Riding Hood”, are being stalked by the evil ominous antagonists in which the girls just cannot escape. Sigmund Freud developed a theory of human personality in which he believed there are three components of the human mind: the id, the ego, and the superego. His theory of personality can be used to understand Connie’s and Little Red’s psychological process. In Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, Connie’s decision on whether she will or will not go for a ride with an older man exemplifies the argument between the id and the superego, and her ego trying to balance the two. Ultimately Connie’s ego is unable to
...l, she then goes into the woods to encounter the id. There she disobeys her mother's instructions, and becomes "the poor child." In the moral, these "pretty, nicely brought-up young ladies" turn "foolish" upon talking to strangers. As "elegant" as they were once considered, it is a child's own fault if she leans to far to the irrational id. Furthermore, Freud dramatically insinuates that this struggle can only end in death, which is the exact fate of Little Red Riding Hood.
For centuries, children stories have been a valuable tool in teaching lessons and morals. Like most stories that one was read as a child, there lies a life lesson that the author is trying to portray. Whether it was told orally like the story Beowulf or written by an author like Chaucer who wrote The Canterbury Tales, there are life lessons that are being taught through the characters and their challenges that they endure.
“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 fairy tale “Riding the Red”, a modern adaptation of Charles Perrault's “Little Red Riding Hood”. Perrault provided a moral to his fairy tales, the one from this one is to prevent girls from men's nature. In Hopkinson's adaptation, the goal remains the same: through the grandmother biographic narration, the author advances a revisited but still effective moral: beware of wolfs even though they seem innocent.
In most fairy tales, the main character are children. Since these tales were originally created to teach children a lesson, they created characters that are close to themselves. In Little Red Riding Hood, Gustave Dore depicted Little Red as a normal young girl in the 17th century, she looks innocent, healthy, and most importantly she looks a human child. They represent life, youth, future, happiness, and unrelenting trust.
To compare and contrast both the story telling of little red riding hood from watching Hoodwinked film an animation comedy written by Cory Edwards, and Todd Edwards based off the tale of the re- make of the little red riding hood. These two stories are in my opinion somewhat the same and different. But when you look at the Hollywood film it has a more of a characteristic telling or showing. After reviewing the two stories I believe they both have the same message to
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 adulthood. The way women are treated within each story is different. Little Red in the French version was eaten; whereas in the German version, she is rescued by the woodsman, and this further emphasizes the cultural differences.
For example, one version is how two Jewish children and their parents had escaped the Nazis horrific treatment of their people. Before the parents send their children off into the woods the two kids are given the Aliases Hansel and Gretel. This then begins the very known story of Hansel and Gretel. The “woods” in this fairytale symbolize the meaning of “anything can happen”. Some people refer to the woods as “free reign”, free to do whatever you want.
However, like many children Little Red-Cap didn’t follow her Mother’s warning and met a wolf on her way to her Grandmothers. The Grimm’s Brothers tells us Little Red-Cap wasn’t afraid of the huge creature and told him exactly where she was headed. The purpose of “Little Red-Cap” and many other “Little Red Riding Hood” stories are teach children, or warn them, not to immediately trust the people you meet.
The fairytale is not just about her journey to grandma’s house, or everyone knowing Little Red Riding Hood because she is a sweet little girl, the fairytale is giving us messages that we should help our elders and we should kind.
This fairy tale was most likely told to children to scare them into obedience. It registered to children essentially as a warning to listen to what your parents say and not to talk to strangers. Just as Little Red Cap subjects herself and her grandmother to danger and is saved by a passing huntsman, she told herself, "As long as I live, I will never leave the path and run off into the woods by myself if mother tells me not to", promising to herself to not be as reckless in the future (Grimm). Little Red Cap also uses her past experiences to learn from her mistakes. The second time she makes a dangerous journey to her grandmother's house, she encounters a second wolf with similar motives at the first. This time, however, Little Red Cap makes a beeline straight to her grandmother’s and makes sure she to not stray from the path once. When Little Red Cap reaches her grandmother’s, she exclaims, "If we hadn't been on a public road, he would have eaten me up"(Grimm). These lessons connect with children, cautioning that the world outside their individual spaces is a dangerous place and should not be taken lightly. Even to this day, this story is told to relate to children and stresses a point to not disobey your parents and stray far from
Most modern fairytales are expected to have happy endings and be appropriate for children, nonetheless, in past centuries most were gruesome. Consequently, fairytales have been modified throughout time. The stories “Beauty and the Beast” by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont and “The Summer and Winter Garden” by Jacob and Wilherm Grimm share similarities and differences. The two stories are distinct because of the peculiar year they have been written in. LePrince de Beaumont’s story is written in London of 1783 and Grimm’s in Germany of 1812. At the time, wealthy people in London, were educated and had nannies who would read to their children; whereas, in Germany, the Grimm brothers created their own interpretation into a short story. Because many high class parents in 18th century London would not be able to spend time with their children, nannies would read “Beauty and the Beast” to them since they were intended for children and considered appropriate. In “The Summer and Winter Garden,” the Grimm’s’ story was mostly based to entertain misbehaved children and teach them the valuable lesson that everyone should be treated with kindness. The Grimm brothers’ goal in rewriting this short story is to better children’s behavior which worked quite well. Since these stories have been re-written for children, it would be safe to say the reason why parents expose the two stories to their children is because they both portray the same moral: good things happen to good people. The two interpretations of “Beauty and the Beast,” although written in separate countries, share important similarities and differences even though the authors have different interpretations and came from different cultures.
The Red Hood in Charles Perrault’s, “Little Red Riding Hood” carried a very vital role because it was the motif that was significant to the story. It symbolized the love of her grandmother, being the person who originally gave her granddaughter the red hood, and also the admiration of the other villagers and the distinguishable identification of the little girl. She wore the hood so much that everyone in the village who saw her started to call her the little red riding hood because it fit her so well. Thus the hood was used as a metonymy for the girl as the hood was becoming inseparable from the little girl. As mentioned in the story, little red riding hood was already the prettiest girl in the world even before she had the red hood, nevertheless she became even prettier after wearing the gift from her grandmother which enhanced her beauty, making her standout even more. Effectively making her the prettiest in the village. The red hood had a lot of implicit symbolism with the colour red already representing many different things such as sex, virginity, seduction, lust...
The first significant difference is in the plot of Roald Dahl’s poem. Taken out completely is the Wolf encounter with Little Red Riding Hood in the woods. Instead of the Wolf cunningly getting information on the whereabouts of grandmother’s house from Little Red Riding Hood, in Dahl’s poem the “Wolf began to feel / That he would like a decent meal, / He went and knocked on Grandma’s door” (Dahl Lines 1-3). The first couple of lines in Dahl’s poem don’t begin focusing on Little Red Riding Hood the way Perrault’s short story does, but instead these lines aim the attention of the poem on the Wolf by beginning with his primary actions and feelings. Along with this absence of plot and shift in focus, Roald Dahl deviates from Perrault’s short story again during Little Red Riding Hood’s encounter with the Wolf in grandmother’s house. Roald Dahl includes the beginning dialogue of questioning between Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf that was originally present in Perrault’s work. However, as this repetition of dialogue goes on, there are significant differences in Roald Dahl’s poem. Instead of carrying on the same questioning dialogue, Little Red Riding Hood says, “but Grandma, / what a lovely great big furry coat you have on” (Dahl Line 39), to then what Dahl answers, “That’s