Prerraults Version of Little Red Ridding Hood

I will also be showing how fairytales can sometimes have extended meanings and how they can teach quit a lot. I will have also shown how Fairytales can serve cultural functions to explain a society to itself, revealing its own mechanisms and taboos in highly symbolic language, images.

The simplicity, linearity and one dimensionality of fairytales have led to the belief in there allegorical nature, a conviction that fairytales mean something quite different from what stands in the text. As with most literary works there is deeper meaning in fairytales than just meets the eye. Little Red, the Wolf, and Grandmother are all one-dimensional characters. The illustrations are simple and sweet. No one character has more emphasis than the other and the focus is on the highly symbolic language, images.

The hearing of Fairytales is particularly suitable for children, as children need to learn how to navigate the society and culture they are growing up into. Little red riding hood by Charles Perrault is a good example of a traditional French fairy tale which plays a symbolic function in representing the society in which its written the values of that society and the gender roles within it. As well as being a simple enough for children to understand the moral lessons and being enjoyable so that children want to listen to it.

The type of society being represented by Perrault in his 1697 version of lRRH was a note ably changed society from the one represented in the early oral French fairytale which were much more magical and Gruesome. The society Perrault represents is industrialized and scientific. The piece of Westphalia in 1648 represents the change from the church ruling to the `state' ruling. It was the time of industrialation t...

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... and how to get threw the forest of life with out looking for trouble. This illustrates to the reader that his society was very patriarchal and it was the onus was on woman to behave properly.

It also illustrates that society had became more dangerous. In the earlier versions of Little Red Riding Hood the danger was from a magical werewolf, which is an unknown danger of which in there were many in those days. In Perils version the danger comes from a wolf, which shows us that the dangers of life are more understood in his society.

Perils version of Little Red riding hood can be read with enough depth to be able to understand his society there values and the gender roles within it. It is not simply a child's fairytale, but is also a story which captures the values, beliefs and problems of the society in which it was written.

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