Compare And Contrast Little Red Riding Hood

Gentle wolves are the most dangerous ones of all. In the story Little Red Riding Hood, Charles Perrault introduces the concept of being wary of strangers to a young audience but on the other hand in Company of Wolves, Angela Carter misses the point of the warning and flips the whole story around. When comparing Little Red Riding Hood and Company of Wolves, the most important point is that children should never talk to strangers but I believe that the Company of Wolves misses this very important point. In both Little Red Riding Hood and Company of Wolves little red riding hood is a young naive girl that should know not to talk to strangers, even if she is supposed to know better and has been warned about these “wolves” the naïve girl still talks …show more content…
Little Red Riding Hood expresses logos because Perrault tries to persuade you with reasons not to talk to the wolf a.k.a. strangers by killing little red riding hood but Company of Wolves doesn’t express logos because in the end of the story little red riding does not get eaten so there is no moral to the story. Little red riding hood was told to stay on the path, not talking to strangers, and bring her sick grandmother some food but she does the opposite which ended up for her grandmother to be killed too.There are many differences between these two stories. The Company of Wolves story doesn’t use an actually wolf in the story but they use a werewolf man unlike Little Red Riding Hood who just uses a plain wolf. On the contrary, in Little Red Riding Hood she using no weapon which causes her to be helpless out in the woods but in Company of Wolves she carries a knife to help her in the woods but when she meets the wolf she ends up giving him her basket and her knife leaving her defenseless. Little red riding hood in the Company of Wolves was very stubborn. She was a naïve, strong-minded child who insisted on going in the