Question One: I chose to read the "Little Red Riding Hood" version by Charles Perrault because reading it as a little kid, compared to reading now, interested me alot because of what i thought of the story then and what i think of it now. Also the conversations that we had in class were very similar to what i got out of the story. For example the metaphor of the wolf was present in the Charles Perrault version because he was trying to eat the little girl, who probably knows that the wolf is not her grandma when she decided to climb in bed with him. I can understand the sexual message that is shown when the wolf says to red riding hood, "Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and come get into bed
with me." The wolf is the sexually aggressive being trying to get with the girl.
Question Two: In LRRH i believe the internal conflict happens when Little Red Riding Hood first starts knocking on the door to her grandmothers house and hears the deep voice of the wolf answer. It appears like she does not quite believe that her grandmother is really there, which is why she gets scared but takes it as the cold is giving her grandmother that deep raspy voice. "Little Red Riding Hood, hearing the big voice of the wolf, was at first afraid;
but believing her grandmother had a cold and was hoarse, answered," however i do believe that she did in fact know that it was not her grandmother at that point in the story.
I agree that it was very interesting to re-read these stories as an adult and kind of see what the real meaning of everything is. It almost makes it hard to believe that we read these to our children with how morbid some of them are.
ReplyDeleteMe, too! I was always VERY opposed to fairy tales and the like (even Disney movies) because of how bland and PG the stories appeared to be. They seemed very shallow. But after our discussion in class, it introduced new concepts and ideas to apply. In my opinion, though, Red Riding Hood and Blue Beard are almost the same story. The concept that these women are held responsible for sins they didn't commit (ie; you shouldn't be curious as opposed to you shouldn't murder your wives/people) It's practically the same concept. So I'm actually now excited to explore short stories/fairy tales! Although I still won't watch Disney. That I'm not going to budge on.
ReplyDeleteI AGREE!! She did in fact know that it was not her grandmother which is why we can conclude that she wasn't as innocent as she's been preceived. But, also we shouldn't jump to conclusion. This story has much to do with the shadowing of women and the virginity we hold, the virginity that makes us either pure or worthless. Anywho, I totally agree with you! Great explanation.
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