Comparing Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm's Little Red Hood

Little Red Hood is a fairy tale that can be found the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s first collection Children’s and Household Tales in 1812 (Malone 4). The brothers were not the first to write this story, their version was created from versions of the story they were previously told (“Moral Warnings and Sexual Implications”). Compared to the version the brothers were told, they changed how the story ends (“Moral Warnings and Sexual Implications”). A second edition by the brothers was published in 1857, this edition removed dark content from their first version (“Moral Warnings and Sexual Implications”).
Little Red Hood opens with, “There was once a sweet little girl” (Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm 95). Although it is not one of the classic introductions like “Once upon a time” or “In a land far, far away”, the story does not begin …show more content…
Plot changes between the Grimm and the adaptation includes skipping the entire second half of the tale where the wolf swallows the grandmother and Little Red Hood. Along with the section where the wolf is cut open and filled with stones after the people he swallowed were rescued. And finally the part where Little Red Hoods encounters the second wolf. Some elements are carried over in this loose adaptation, including Olrik’s law of three, and Lüthi’s one dimensional element. Elements that were not carried over in this adaptation includes Olrik’s opening and closing law and Propp’s dramatic situation where the heroin is victorious. The adaptation also does not follow the main motif behind the Grimm’s fairy tail, ATU333 (“Classification of Folk Tales”). “The wolf or other monster devours human beings until all of them are rescued alive from his belly”. These elements and plot changes not being carried over are the reasons behind why I believe the adaptation does not carry over the fairy tale aspect of the Grimm’s Little Red