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    Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks And The Three Bears are two of the most famous fairy tales.Although they might be for little kids these stories teach a strong lesson.The two characters, Red riding hood and Goldilocks were adventurous, brave, and independent.They were also selfish and rude. In the fairy, Little Red Riding Hood Red is an innocent gullible young girl, who was tricked by a wolf into telling it where her grandma lived.When Red arrived at her grandma’s house she found the…

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    Little Red Riding Hood by Thompson, is a European based fairy tale that revolves around a Big Bad Wolf and the young girl (Red Riding Hood). The girl walks through a forest to deliver some snacks to her grandmother. A Big Bad Wolf accosts her and makes attempts to kill her, but she outwits him. The wolf stealthily goes to the girls’ grandmother and swallows her. He then puts on grandmother’s clothes to mimic her so that he could lure the girl into his jaws. The girl is however wise enough to…

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    “Little Red Riding Hood” is a story to be enjoyed by people of all ages. In the seventeenth century, Charles Perrault wrote it as a folktale. The story, as many know it today, is quite simple. A girl called Little Red Riding Hood gets sent to her grandmother at the other end of the woods to deliver some jam and bread. Her mother warned her about not talking to strangers. A wolf approaches her and asks her where she is going and Little Red Riding Hood, thinking that he is harmless, tells him. The…

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    The tale of “Little Red Riding Hood” is a story about a young girl who is on her way to visit her ill grandmother who lives in the forest. She comes prepared with food and a beverage for grandmother to have, provided by her mother who warns her not to go off the path. On the way to grandma’s house, she runs into a wolf in the forest who asks where Little Red is going, who she is going to see, and then usually he will give her a proposition about racing to the house or just wishing her good luck…

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    Referencing to the renown tale of “Little Red Riding Hood,” specifically Charles Perrault’s adaptation, it explores and employs dark themes to elucidate the moral of the story. Alluding to fairy tales educating its audience, Perrault conveys the consequences of ignorance to young girls by the means of appalling details, with Red Riding Hood willingly informing the wolf of her grandmother’s exact location and removing her clothing for the…

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    certain that Little Red Riding Hood a fairy tale that remains relevant in today’s society. It continues to teach children and adult’s important messages and morals that, relate to the modern world. Little Red Riding Hood is a classic fairy tale written by Charles Perrault, 17th century, with over 58 versions around the world. This fairy tale teaches young and old people to that you must make your own decision in life and go down your own path whether it is good or bad. Little red riding hood…

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    versions of the popular tale of “Little Red Riding Hood” began as oral folktales shared by women and men throughout Europe, the story eventually evolving into a children’s tale. This tale revolves around a young girl, typically associating with wearing a red cape. The naive girl ventures alone through the forest enroute to her grandmother’s house, bringing along with her a variety of baked goods. Along the way she encounters a conniving wolf, whose interactions with Red are suggestive of devious…

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    I believe that the story of Little Red Riding Hood follows the virtue ethics because virtues involves who a person is becoming. Little Red’s mother tells her to stay on the path while delivering goods to her ill grandmother, but after not listening to her mother’s instructions, Little Red stumbles off the path and picks flowers for her grandmother. Virtue ethics involves, “what we do when no one is watching”. I believe that since Little Red was alone in the woods, she could have easily eaten the…

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    need to get done. In “Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault and “Little Red Cap” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (The Grimm Brothers), they both tell a story about a young girl who is bringing goods to her sick grandmother in the woods. The mother tells Little Red to not stray off the path because it is dangerous and there are wolves in the woods and she doesn’t want her daughter to get hurt. In both short stories and the song “Hello Little Girl” from Into the Woods Little Red is being very…

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    since I killed Little Red Riding Hood’s Grandma, Margaret the people of the village have been trying to kick me out. Now you have got to understand me, I never killed Margaret, I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time! I was walking past Margaret's house and I heard a groaning ( groan). By the time I got in the house Margaret was lying on the ground... (sniff) sorry, she was lying on the ground, on the ground…dead. By the time I ordered a coffin for her, Little Red Riding Hood was at the…

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