In society, one often times sees the pattern of women being shown and treated as weaker than their male counterparts. This can, at times, be portrayed in literature with women being depicted as feeble and powerless, while men are seen in the opposite view as powerful and capable. This stereotype is depicted in both Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Little Red Cap” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, where the thought of females not being able to help themselves without the assistance of a man is portrayed. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Little Red Cap” is a classic example of an innocent girl needing to be saved. Little Red Cap goes into the woods to deliver baked goods and wine to her sick, frail grandmother. As she enters the woods the wolf
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Little Red Cap then steers off the path when the wolf easily tricks her, saying “Little Red Cap, just look at the beautiful flowers that are all around us? Why don’t you go and take a look?” (621 B) and she gets the idea that she could bring a bouquet over to her grandmother. As she distracts herself for a while with this task, the wolf goes about his plan and races off to the grandmother’s house, easily tricking someone once again by imitating Little Red Cap so she will let him in. After the wolf eats the grandmother, he dresses in her clothes, gets into her bed, and waits for Little Red Cap to come looking for her grandmother. When Little Red Cap walks in the well-known “Oh, Grandmother, what big ears you have!” “All the better to hear you with” (622 M) exchange happens before the wolf leaps up from the bed and eats Little Red Caps before she even has time to react or fight back. It is not that Little Red Cap and her grandmother are saved until a huntsman is walking by the grandmothers house and goes to check in on the old lady, only to find the wolf instead. The huntsman then takes a pair of scissors and cuts the two women out of the wolf’s stomach, allowing them to be freed
Little Red Cap then steers off the path when the wolf easily tricks her, saying “Little Red Cap, just look at the beautiful flowers that are all around us? Why don’t you go and take a look?” (621 B) and she gets the idea that she could bring a bouquet over to her grandmother. As she distracts herself for a while with this task, the wolf goes about his plan and races off to the grandmother’s house, easily tricking someone once again by imitating Little Red Cap so she will let him in. After the wolf eats the grandmother, he dresses in her clothes, gets into her bed, and waits for Little Red Cap to come looking for her grandmother. When Little Red Cap walks in the well-known “Oh, Grandmother, what big ears you have!” “All the better to hear you with” (622 M) exchange happens before the wolf leaps up from the bed and eats Little Red Caps before she even has time to react or fight back. It is not that Little Red Cap and her grandmother are saved until a huntsman is walking by the grandmothers house and goes to check in on the old lady, only to find the wolf instead. The huntsman then takes a pair of scissors and cuts the two women out of the wolf’s stomach, allowing them to be freed