Little Red Riding Hood Moral Analysis

The human mind is a complex machine that decides our every thought, action or feeling. It gathers all the information it can from the things we see and feel and tries to make sense of it all. Subconsciously, that’s what we're all trying to do; understand. But what happens when we can’t make sense of it all, when we come upon something we’ve never experienced before? Sometimes we just can’t make sense of things but through works of art and literature, we can see why, providing us with understanding of what can and cannot be understood. The story of Little Red Riding Hood goes beyond its infamous moral to always listen to your parents and not talk to strangers. Through it’s different versions, Riding Hood is a parallel to real life situations …show more content…
Rather than a story of right or wrong, Little Red Riding hood serves as guide for what parents should be teaching their children. For example, parents should be strict and provide a clear set of rules when sending their child off to do something on their own for the first time, like hike into the woods to aid an ill grandmother. Similarly, in stories like “Wolf” the idea of sexual violence is made clear to the reader that is something parents must look out for in their children. This is helping to show its not something one can understand simply by being told about it. One couldn’t possibly understand as a parent the way their child is feeling if they are being sexually abused. The story of “Wolf” provides a way for them to understand that they cannot understand. The main character is a young girl. She loves her mother more than anything and felt that she was always at her side until “he started coming into my [her] room,” and at that time she felt so alone. At such a young age, there is no one she can talk to that could understand what she is going through. She blames herself for everything that has happened and fears for her relationship with her mother if she were to ever find out. She represents that fear that abused people would feel. The blame. This is why many sexually assaulted women don’t come forward and report what has happened to them. …show more content…
It’s many different versions can give different types of hope, warning and inspiration to those who read it. Delving into the ideas of empowerment and or the social injustice for those that have been impacted and hurt in ways that cannot be explained or imagined by anyone else. Explaining to its readers why certains things just cannot be understood by the human brain, simply because it hasn’t experienced it. Little Red Riding Hood is just one example of a work of art continually being overlooked and underestimated for its true meaning and