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| Little Red Riding Hood |
Even with each change in the story with the change in time the basic plot stays the same. The story's interpretation throughout history also pretty much stays the same. It has a coming of age theme and sexual connotations. The idea of the young going into the dark woods and running into the wolf who wants to take her "innonence," and coming out of the situation a woman.
Reading some of the versions that are out now and watching the movies that have come out in the last decade based on the story, its not hard to see which interpretation they take now. When I was younger the stories, the cartoons, and movies were so nice and innocent but now the sexual connotations are even more obvious. When the story first came out it was seen as a warning to girls, be careful around rnanger, protect your virtue, etc. but now the story has taken a different turn.
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| Red Riding Hood Movie |
How is it that a story that was a warning to
girls when it first came out become a story based on sex. I guess its a completely different time period.
What "monster" are you discussing here? What cultural anxiety? How has that anxiety changed over time?
ReplyDeleteAre there specific parts from the story that could reference sex? Possibly when the wolf is pretending to be little red riding hood's grandmother in her bed. I believe that there are many more messages that this story is trying to send and every version has its own different message yet they all tell a similar story. Do you think it is wrong that so many fairy tales from back in the day and even cartoons today have sexual connotations, even though children would not necessarily understand them?
ReplyDeleteSo are you claiming that the wolf used sexual connotations to sway Red Riding Hood his way? What exactly does this say about the culture during this time period? It is also very clear that in the movie, the wolf is a sex reference since he ends up being one of the men that she loved. Since that's the case, wouldn't it be obvious, that even though you were young and didn't really understand what the message was in between the lines, that sex was a role in the story and was supposed to be bad and punished for thinking about it? Also Little Red clearly wears red which attracts the wolf to her. Red is known as the color of sex, or attraction. This is something to think about what the deeper cultural anxiety must've been.
ReplyDeleteI think the sexual connotations in Red ridding hood is a main theme. As with other stories, troubles, usually personified in a male character, threaten small girls. What is important to note here is the evolution of this story as a more feminist and equal atmosphere has entered out society. Modern stories have written this story where little red riding hood is not some poor illequipped girl, but a character of means and strength. This is a direct reflection of society today.
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