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Little Red Riding Hood is a story with many different morals. Each new version has a different lesson and each character changes. Between Charles Perrault’s version of “Little Red Riding-hood” and the film “Hoodwinked,” many differences were noticed. In both stories one must look at what defines each character. But who learned what? There were twists and turns throughout both stories that were completely unexpected. Some of the reactions were out of the ballpark and nothing was quite like it seemed. The characters all learned something about themselves, the people around them, or learned from their mistakes. Little Red Riding-hood, the Wolf, and Granny all seemed like completely different characters in the two different stories. The different reactions of those characters determined varied consequences and outcomes. Looking throughout the two stories, each character learned a different lesson or faced various endings.
A young, red-hooded girl walked through the woods all alone. All of a sudden the Wolf popped out of nowhere. What was Little Red to do? Was she to trust the Wolf? That has been the conflicting turmoil in both of Red’s stories. As a gullible young girl in Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood,” Red blindly believed the Wolf. “I am going to see my grandmother,” Red told the Wolf (Griffith and Frey 10). That naïve nature caused Red to seem young and clueless. Negative consequences arose form Red’s cluelessness, causing Red and her Granny to get hurt. The lesson learned from Little Red in that story was not to trust strangers. Throughout “Hoodwinked, Red took on a different attitude about her situation. Red took action and assaulted the Wolf when he approached her. She found the Wolf to be untrustworthy and was qu...
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...errault also portrayed a very accurate display of how thoughtlessness can cause you to be the target of someone’s schemes. The film “Hoodwinked” taught that jumping to conclusions can be catastrophic as well. When one accuses an innocent person of a crime they did not commit, it causes one to be blind-sighted to what is really happening. People make mistakes and teachings are learned through them. As seen in the two versions of Little Red Riding Hood, different lessons are learned through different circumstances. When one goes through different situations, their entire character determines the outcome.
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In this essay, I examine what Zipes means by institutionalised, define what makes a fairy tale and evaluate how different versions of Little Red Riding Hood reflect the social ideology of the period.
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