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    illustrations of “Little Red Riding Hood” differently due to their different ways of looking at things. Bettelheim looks at the illustration through a psychoanalytic view while May observes through a critical theorist viewpoint. Since Bettelheim approaches “Little Red Riding Hood” in a psychoanalytic way, he believes the key moment is when Little Red Riding Hood is in bed with the wolf. Bettelheim looks at the fairy tale through a psychoanalytic view which is why he perceives the key moment as a…

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    The wolf is able to take advantage of Little Red Riding Hood and portrayed overall smarter and more deceiving then his counterpart. It is clear that in this time they felt that women in some way were easier influenced and able to be taken advantage of without much effort. The tale holds the morals of not trusting a stranger and that not everything is as it seems which still seems to be the main theme throughout and so far the character of Little Red Riding Hood being the victim and the Wolf…

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    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…

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    Little Red Riding Hood was having a pretty nice day when visiting her grandma. When she was baking the red velvet cake to her grandma, she encountered a peaceful wolf. The wolf says ¨Good day Little Red Riding Hood¨ Little Red Riding Hood replies ¨Thank you kindly Wolf.¨ Little Red Riding Hood is explaining to the wolf that her grandmother is sick and Little Red Riding Hood wants her grandmother to feel better. Then Little Red Riding Hood walks away mining her own business walking to her…

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    The lesson Little Red Riding Hood learned was to never trust a wolf because they are sly and clever. She let herself get tricked once and that resulted in getting herself and her grandma eaten by the cunning wolf. When the second time the wolf tried to trick her, she knew the tricks because of her previous experience and therefore did not let herself go astray. The first time Little Red Riding Hood was going to visit her grandmother she lets herself get tricked by the sly wolf. The wolf turns…

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    symbolism in the story of the Little Red Riding Hood. The symbols used in the story are her “red hood” that was given to her by her mother and the “woods or forest” that she needs to walk through, to get to her grandmother’s house where she lives on the other side of the village. The red hood that was given to her symbolizes the adulthood of women. At the time this story was written, red was often a symbol for love, life, passion and maturity. Since she wore a cloak of red, it became a…

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    In the two fables, “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears”, there are several differences and similarities present. In the stories, the surface similarities are setting, protagonist, morals, and plot. For example, they both take place in a forest. Goldilocks wanders around and winds up getting lost there while Little Red Riding Hood is on a journey for her grandmother. Although they have different motives for venturing into the woods, the location is the same.…

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    the Little Red Riding Hood tales the motif of naivety or the loss of naivety prevails. In three different versions of the tale, the Little Red Riding Hood characters naivety is developed in three very different ways. In the Perrault version, the protagonist exhibits naivety from start to finish with no middle ground. The Delarue tale presents a protagonist that loses her naivety through the…

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    Little Red Ridding Hood by Charles Perrault I have selected to read The Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault. I will be analyzing The Little Red Riding Hood through a historical lens. Charles Perrault lived in France during the 1600’s, during this time France encountered many things, such as riotings and wars. There was rioting against political leaders and many wars with different countries, mainly due how much land everyone wanted. The story of The Little Red Riding Hood was…

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    with details being switched around so the people could relate to the characters. Variations of the popular modern story Little Red Riding Hood are prime examples of this. In an older version Little Red was “A slut (is she) who eats the flesh and drinks the blood of her granny.” and…

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