¶ … Red Riding Hood is an interesting folk tale which has been very popular among children and adults alike. Several versions of the story are found but the most common elements remain the same whereby a young little girl is asked by her mother to visit her grandmother and give her some food. Upon her arrival however, she finds that a wolf has replaced her grandmother but just when he is about to attack Red riding hood, he is killed by a woodcutter who happens to be around when the little girl calls for help. Recently the story was made into a movie but honestly speaking, the movie bears very little resemblance to the original tale. Apart from the werewolf aspect, there happens to be no real point of comparison because the movie is far more inspired by Twilight than it is by Little Red riding hood. It was not even loosely based on the story even though it borrows the title from the story. The Little red riding hood role is essayed by Amanda Seyfried who fits the part very well but...
For one the little red riding hood is anything but little. She is not the little girl of the original story but instead a 21-year-old who is torn between two men. There is no love angle in the original tale but in the movie, it has a major part as the young woman is thrown in a difficult situation when she has to choose between two men, one that she really loves and the other has been chosen by her mother.
Red Riding Hood and its variants is one of the best known fairy tales, but the different versions of a little girl's experiences while going to visit her grandmother have textual differences which serve to change the tone, if not the overall arc, of the story. However, these differences can actually help one to understand the wide range and reception of fairy tales, because even though different versions of
Media presentations of justified violencemay also change the belief that violent behavior is wrong, encouraging the development of pro-violence attitudes. […] Violence is acceptable because it is not real, therefore "victims" do not really suffer (Funk et al. 26). Given this serious -- and well-documented -- consequence of even imaginary violence, writers and readers of fairy tales should exercise care that their depictions of violence are truly relevant to the
Children's Literature Timeline LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN: A SELECTIVE TIMELINE Charles Perrault. Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passe: Les Contes de ma Mere l'Oie. (Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose.) France. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Kinder- und Haus-marchen. (Children's and Household Tales.) Germany. Hans Christian Andersen. Eventyr Fortalte For Born (Fairy Tales Told To Children.) First and Second Volumes. Denmark. Heinrich Hoffmann, Struwwelpeter (Shock-Headed Peter). Germany. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in
Wife of Bath's Tale And Shrek Shrek and Wife of Bath's Tale - Comparisons and Contrasts Shrek the Book The original story of Shrek, by William Steig, published in 1990, is a far cry from the mega-hit Dreamworks movie production with the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and John Lithcow. In the original story, Shreck breathes fire, is not a likeable character at all, and he is hideously ugly. He
Tales Charles Perrault was responsible for collecting and adapting many of the fairy tales best known to contemporary audiences, and his collection of Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals, also known as Mother Goose Tales, offers a unique insight into both the evolution of fairy tales in general and the socio-political context of Perrault's own writing. In particular, Perrault's use of domesticated and wild animals in certain
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