Little Red Ridding Hood

It has been years since I have read this story of Little Red Ridding Hood, and when I read it again, I saw it through a new set of eyes. It was not only this version which was more sexual but that I saw metaphors for things that I could not have understood as a child. I think that it is very interesting that this story is a children's story when a child is not really able to understand what is really being implied, and what the true meaning of the story is. I know that I would have never have thought of this fairy tale as a lesson of staying away from seemingly kind men.

Well I must say that I really enjoyed the second piece we read because it really dug deep into the reason for the tale of Little Red Ridding Hood. I love that stories/ fairy tales are used as tools to send messages to the public. It was really interesting that this tale was used to open the eyes of women to shady men who were very prominent at the time of the story's publishing. I love that many of the words or metaphors used in stories are connected to French sayings or meanings of words. But the part of the article that really caught my attention was when they said that in fairy tales, there is usually a point in which the main character is brought adulthood. They then said that in most tales, women do not experience this but are seen as a child even when they are middle aged. When reading this, I was shocked by the truth that it held. Fairy tales give the wrong message to young girls that they must depend on a man to save them when really they have all the tools to do so themselves. This really was displayed by the original stories, wives tales. Most fairy tales were at one point wives tale, meaning the women in the tales would be heroines. I think that as time has passed men have taken full control of society and in doing this demeaned women. Luckily, I think this control is slowly being taken away and shared between the sexes.