...Little Red Riding Hood as Depicted in Matthew Bright’s Freeway (1996) Name: Course: Lecturer: Date: Little Red Riding Hood as depicted in Matthew Bright’s Freeway (1996) [pic]Mathew Bright’s film Freeway is literal work that presents the Little Red Riding Hood with a preface of the verbal and visual texts. The film draws ideas from different books starting from Charles Perrault’s little riding text of 1697 (Catherine, 2002). The film further contains the depiction of the Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 1982 text. In addition, the film is based on a book review of Little Red Riding Hood as portrayed by Charles Delarue’s works on French oral tales (Zipes, 2010). The books reviews have a historical dimension in their examination of the Little Red Riding Hood. Mathew Bright’s film was produced in 1996. It features the Little Red Riding Hood. The film is referred to as the freeway and it was cast in California. Little Red Riding Hood is depicted as a generation X character discerning from the way the character is clothed. The Little Red Riding Hood is shown in the film wearing saggy trousers, a jacket made of leather and combat boots that are prominent feature in hip-pop artist attires. In examining the attire it is discerned that the attire represent the people from social underclass who are closely associated with the hip-pop culture. The Little Red Riding Hood is further characterized by a voice peculiar...
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...In the Woods with Red, the Wolf, and Perrault Over time, the story of Little Red Riding Hood has seen hundreds of different interpretations, versions, and changes. Charles Perrault, a 17th century author, wrote the first publication of this story to reflect that young children, particularly young girls, are wrong to listen to strangers, in this case wolves, and that in doing so, said strangers will undoubtedly get their delicious meal in the end. In Perrault’s version, the male and female are depicted in a very particular way, which is ultimately a reflection of the culture and society of the time. Given this society, and the status of women, it is clear that Perrault is criticizing the gender representation through. While Little Red Riding Hood is a classic tale, it holds a more valuable meaning than society realizes. The story of Little Red Riding Hood has a particular depiction of both men and women. In the story, men are depicted as a “metaphor, a stand-in for male seducers who lure young women into their beds.” (Tater 5). This depiction, while true, is not complete. The wolf is in fact luring Red into the bed with him, after she has taken her clothes off, and although it is not explicitly stated, the action of a girl removing her clothing and climbing into bed with a man implies a sense of sexuality. Additionally, though, the male is depicted as duplicitous and dominant. In several instances throughout the story, the wolf clearly tricks Red and her grandmother into believing...
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...Fairy Tales, a modern staple of the nursery, represent much about the culture which tells them, for in fairy tales we find not just the fantasies of childhood but the realities of society. So much more than just nursery stories, fairy tales provide the backdrop for the development of a child’s psyche by simultaneously stimulating his imagination and “at the same time suggesting solutions to the problems which perturb him.” (Bettleheim in Tatar 270). Just as Oedipal conflicts and narcissistic dilemmas are navigated amid the fantasies of these tales, it is in the same manner that fairy tales till the soil on which the budding individual develops as a gendered and socialized member of the culture in which he lives. Folk stories, and more modernly, fairy tales, serve to influence the collective and individual unconscious in gender roles and gender identities. In examination of the various treatments of classic tales we can identify a running theme of subjugating the feminine in the service of patriarchy. Fairy tales are a specialization of folk lore, similar to myths and quests in that each subclass identify and reinforce gender roles. Hero stories accentuate the bravery and skill of the young boy who identifies with them but simultaneously reinforce that boy’s understanding of how to relate to the feminine (in many such tales the feminine is relegated to a helpless beauty he must rescue). Similarly, fairy tales, “by producing the female subject as complemented and completed...
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...On May 27, 2014, at 9:59 PM, Wendy West wrote: Running Header: Little Red Riding Hood Once upon a time, there was a blonde, blue eyed boy named SJ, that was about three years old and was the center of his grandmother’s universe. Unfortunately his grandmother was old and feeble and was unable to work which meant she had no way of paying her mortgage and her home was about to be foreclosed upon. One beautiful, warm, spring morning the young boy’s mother wrapped several pieces of gold and silver in his very special red blanket and put them into his backpack with instructions to go straight to his grandmother’s house. The young boy was to go through the woods and stay on the dirt path they had always taken in the past. His mother emphasized to him how important it was that he not strays due to the wild animals that lived in the woods. The young boy agreed and with that set off to grandmother’s house. As he entered the woods he noticed the birds were singing, the squirrels were playing, the trees were dancing in the wind, and the flowers radiating with color by the light of the sun shining upon them. He quickly forgot his mother’s caution not to stray and decided to enter a nearby field to pick an array of flowers for his grandmother when suddenly he heard a voice say, “Young boy, you should not be here all alone. What are you doing?” The young boy was not afraid as he turned to see that it was a wolf that was speaking to him. “I am picking flowers for my grandmother, now...
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...Running Head: THE LITTLE RED HEN The Little Red Hen The Little Red Hen The Myth The Russian folktale of The Little Red Hen is a story about a hard-working hen who wants to make bread. The hen and her farm animal friends decide that they would like to enjoy a delicious loaf of bread. The hen reaches out to her farm animal friends and asks them if they would like to help her in the process of harvesting, threshing, milling the wheat into flour, and finally baking the bread. She asks each of the animals’ individually, but none of them wish to help her in her efforts of making the bread in which they all would like to enjoy. When the bread is finally ready to eat, she asks her friends, “Who would like to help me eat the bread?” Well of course, now all of the farm animal friends are ready to participate in this action. However, the hen denies her friends any bread because they could not help her in all the steps it took to get the bread made. The hen enjoys the bread alone because she feels that the farm animal friends are not deserving of having any of the finished product if they could not contribute in all of the work it took to make the finished product. The Lesson The lesson attached to this folktale is obvious. If you are not willing to put in an honest day's work, then you will go hungry; literally and figuratively in this case. It is basically a folktale to teach work ethic and initiative. It is actually quoted in the bible, “If any man will not work, never let...
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...Pip gets his life ruined by chasing after Estella, and in the original ending never got with her, and somewhat moved on with his life. However, in the alternate, romanticized ending, there is a possibility of Pip and Estella ending up together. Critic Martin Prince agrees with this second ending, because Pip matured and sees Estella as she really is, so they can get back together. However, this book is meant to be a coming-of-age tale, and therefore teach real life lessons. The alternate, “happy” ending of this book severely conflicts with the lesson this book is trying to teach. This ending is the equivalent of the witch in Hansel and Gretel giving them pots of gold and letting them go, or the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood throwing a surprise party for Little Red Riding Hood…..meaning that the ending doesn’t fit in the context of the story. And here are three reasons why the Disney ending of this story is completely wrong. The entire purpose of this story is to teach lessons to future generations about how it’s on the inside that counts, and that some things are just not meant to be. In Great Expectations, Pip loves Estella starting in childhood, and becomes a “gentleman” to try to please her. During this time he is so blinded by his stubborn love that he annihilates everybody who cares for him. Towards the end of story he realizes this, repairs his connections with his friends, and goes with Herbert to Egypt. Later, he then goes back to England, and sees Estella married a doctor...
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...that if you want your reader willing to read your essay or article, you have to choose the subject that you really interested in and care bout, otherwise it is hard to fascinate your reader. It also reminds me as a writer, I have to put myself in my readers’ shoes sometimes when I am writing, this not only helps me on thinking of ideas, but also how to attract the readers by my use of language. In term of thinking of ideas, I did inspired a lot after I read The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter. There are several extraordinary stories which based on “wolves” combine in this book. The one that I love the most is the one which rewrite of the Little Red Hood. There are plenty of versions of the ending of this story, but this one was the most interesting and hilarious ending I have ever seen, which the little red hood “kind of” fell in love with the wolf which ate her granny. Although...
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...Introduction to The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar is a scholarly article that focuses on how different aspects of society influences fairytale. The author stated that even though fairy tales are not “unique one-offs”, as said by Angela Carter, they still “circulate in multiple versions, reconfigured by each telling to form kaleidoscopic variations with distinctly different effects”.Various theorist were also incorporated into to explain what truly makes a fairytale and the components. She mentions how fairytales are viewed in each culture whether it be the different names of the characters or the morals of the story that is conveyed. One of the basic plot structure mentioned that is part of the components was the episodic structure. For instance in the tale of Beauty and the Beast regardless of how many version of the story there are or what language it is translated in there are five parts that are always similar. Those five parts are the monster as husband, disenchantment of the monster, loss of the husband, search for the husband and recovery of the husband.This is an example of what our author states in her thesis concerning the multiple version and having distinctly different results. The second form of evidence that she provides to reinforce her thesis is the explanation on how we ingest the fairytales along with the values and consciousness as children and not before long we are adults with the same ideas. Boys dream of rescuing girls and the girls “aspire to be...
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...LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ------------------------------------------------- SCRIPT Narrator : Once upon a time in a village by the forest, there lived a beautiful little girl with her mother. The little girl was called as Little Red Riding Hood because she always wear a red velvet given to her by her grandmother who lived on the other side of the forest. Red Riding hood lowed her granny very much. One bright morning, a hunter came to the cottage. The hunter knock on the door. Hunter : I am coming straight from your grandma’s cottage. She is not-well and wants to see you at the earliest possible. Red riding hood : Hoo, thank you uncle. I will tell my mom. Hunter : Okay, I have to leave. Bye girl. Red riding hood : Bye uncle. Narrator : Red riding hood immediately rushed to her mother who was preparing a cake. Red riding hood : Mother, the woodcutter told me that grandma has fallen sick. Mother : I’m worried. I think you should leave immediately to meet your dear grandmother. Red riding hood : I can take some cake for her ? Mother : Of course dear. I will pack some cake and a bottle of butter for her. She’s loves them. Narrator : Red riding hood cheered up. Red riding hood : Give me the basket. I’ll walk up to her house as soon as possible. Mother : Give her my love. Red riding hood : Okay mother. Mother : Remember, keep to the path through the woods and don’t ever stop. You will be in danger if you wonder into the forest. Make sure you are back home before...
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...In Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, a group of girls are taken from their home in the wilderness where they live as wolves to St. Lucy’s Home where they undergo extensive training to become more civilized. Mirabella is the youngest of the girls in the program and is the only one to not learn how to act appropriately from the nuns. Mirabella represents individuals resisting conformity to societal norms as she stays true to her roots under pressure and harassment from her peers and authority. As Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” progresses, Mirabella becomes more ostracized amongst her sisters and peers as she is the only girl who does not deviate from her identity as a wolf-girl. According to psychological research by Herbert C. Kelman, compliance, which is a form of conformity, is described as individuals adopting “the induced behavior because they expect to gain specific rewards or approval and avoid specific punishment or disapproval”. All of the girls at St. Lucy’s home except Mirabella become compliant to the requests and desires of the nuns because they did not want to “break the mother’s heart” (Russell 270) by passing up the opportunity to become civilized. This shows that even though the girls had been raised as wolves, they were motivated enough by their desire to please their mother, as well as please the nuns, that they worked diligently to overcome their wolf instincts and become better human girls. Mirabella, on...
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...A huntsman saved Little Red Hood and her granny after they were eaten alive by a wolf. Wolf tricked Hood into picking flower as he headed down the road to granny’s home. When he arrived to the home he knocked at the door and entered after receiving no response. Wolf then ate granny alive when he got to her room. According to Sarah Griffiths in her article on history of Little Red Hood states that Little Red Hood’s story first appeared in Europe during the first century. The story of this young girl dates back to about 2,000 years ago and is considered to be a folktale. “It's a story told around the world. Little Red Riding Hood goes to visit her grandmother, only to discover that a wolf has eaten the old lady, dressed in her clothes, and now...
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...a more modern setting, it’s clear that remastering fairytales is big right now. After viewing the trailer, I had high expectations about the 1987 musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine directed by Rob Marshall “Into the Woods”, an intermingling of the Grimm fairy tales, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel. Except for an occasional giggle, magical scenery and period costumes, the Disney rated PG film adaptation musical “Into the Woods” was a dark, hodge-podge of Grimm fairytales with themes of pedophilia, murder, disfigurement, child abuse and infidelity....
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...The Little Red Riding Hood Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in a village by the forest. The little girl loved wearing a red cloak and hood that her mother made for her, so everyone in the village called her Little Red Riding Hood. One day, Little Red Riding Hood asked her mother if she could go and visit her sick grandmother. Her mother agreed and packed a nice basket for her to take to her grandmother. On the way, a wolf who wanted to eat her up but afraid to do so in public approached her. He was friendly and asked her where she was going. She naively told him where she was going. He suggested her to pick some flowers for her grandmother, which she did. In the meantime, the wolf cleverly took a shortcut and rushed towards the grandmother's house. He gained entry by pretending to be Little Red Riding Hood. He swallowed the grandmother whole. He dressed himself like the grandmother and waited for Little Red Riding Hood to come in. When Little Red Riding Hood arrived at her grandmother's home, she noticed that her grandmother looked very strange. She gave comments about her looks. She then realized that a hungry wolf was in the bed. The wolf swallowed her whole, too. A wood cutter came to the rescue and cut the wolf open. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother were unharmed. They filled the wolf's body with heavy stones. The wolf awakened thirsty from his large meal and went to the well to seek water, where he fell in and drowned because of the heavy...
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...Sinful Salacity We’ve all experienced it. A craving so deep that it devours our every thought throughout the day, and keeps us awake at night. Whether it is for that oh, so elusive Pumpkin Spice Latte in the off-season, or for a long, passionate kiss from that foxy quarterback, this yearning tugs at the edge of our mind until it takes over behind the wheel, and fuels our actions. It can cloud our judgment and reduce us to a state of primal licentiousness. This insatiable desire for material and corporeal consumption is known as lust. The Oxford English Dictionary itself takes several stances on the meaning of the word. The first definition is simple: “Pleasure, delight” (OED 1). This definition doesn’t accentuate the sinful connotation of the word. It describes something charming, attractive, and friendly. The next definition that the OED gives is “desire, appetite, relish, or inclination for something” (OED 2). With this definition, we are able to detect more of a connotation of a strong ache for something that, when attained, brings about a sort of ecstasy only caused by that object of lust. A more recent definition, “Sexual appetite or desire. Chiefly and now exclusively implying intense moral reprobation: Libidinous desire, degrading animal passion” (OED 4), finally associates lust with reprehensibility. It denotes specifically the sinful nature of such passion associated with the flesh, and indicates how lending ourselves to such desires debases our humanity. While a...
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...THEME AND NARRATIVE ELEMENTS IN THE SHORT STORY BY __________________________ COURSE NAME/# PROFESSOR NAME DATE DUE, 2012 This analysis is a response to my exploration of the short story Little Red Riding Hood as featured in Journey Into Literature by R.W. Clugston, (2010, Ch. 4.1). The story is actually an ancient fable told in the oral tradition (basically French folk lore) that was written nearly 315 years ago by a writer named Charles Perrault in Paris. The identity of the original author is unknown, although it has been re-written and re-interpreted many, many times by others all over the world. The most popular version of the piece appeared in Perrault’s collection of fairy tales penned under the pseudonym, Mother Goose. Later in the mid-twentieth century, Walt Disney created an American re-telling of the famous Mother Goose story, but reworked it by adding the character of the Huntsman who intervenes and kills the wolf, saving the girl from the grip of Death. The reason for its success and worldwide popularity, I believe, lies in the story’s universal themes: a uniquely human expression of the dangerous interaction between good and evil. Culturally, this theme is extremely adaptable, and malleable to suit many peoples’ values. The story’s narration is done by an omniscient third-person whose voice and tone, in my opinion, reflect a sort of cool distance: a disinterested teller of cautionary tales. For example, the matter-of-fact way the murders are introduced...
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