Little Red Riding Hood By Charles Perrault

“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 wolf precedes her to the house and puts the grandma in the closet and sits in her bed pretending he is her. Little Red Riding Hood comes in asking the traditional questions such as “What big ears you have!” and the wolf tries to eat her. A nearby …show more content…
In one of the versions, the wolf “...slipped down from the roof… and was drowned.” (Grimm). In “Little Red Riding Hood”, the protagonist is Little Red Riding Hood herself while antagonist is the wolf. If this version has the wolf drowning, and ending up dead, doesn’t that give the protagonist a happy ending? Another common version of the story would be that the wolf “...wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead…” (Grimm). Again, we see that the antagonist dies, allowing the protagonist to have a happily ever after and that can’t ever be harmful could it? Also, the fact that the hunter was smart enough to put stones in the wolf and to sew him back together symbolizes that if one tries hard enough to do something and sets his mind to it, he can achieve it. The hunter wanted to save Little Red Riding Hood and Grandmother and saving them he did! He found a way to save them just because he had set his mind to it. “How the old woman is snoring! I must just see if she wants anything.” (Grimm). All the hunter wanted to do was to check up on the old lady because she was snoring out of the norm. The hunter’s intention was to simply make sure she had everything she needed but yet he managed to save her life! The Brothers Grimm are indicating, through their work, that one with a good intention will …show more content…
History because Charles Perrault was inspired by something angelic so he could only mean positive things. Purpose because of the helpful moral at the end. Modern telling because it gives a hopeful emotion to how stories usually end, and impact because a lot of what happened in “Little Red Riding Hood” happens now, even if it is slightly altered. Now, one would wonder what would have happened if Little Red Riding Hood had not talked to the wolf on her way to her grandmother’s