Perrault's Fairy Tales

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In today’s society, fairy tales have changed throughout the years that the original writers intended the story to be. Stories such “Little Red Cap” in the Grimm’s version and “Little Red Riding Hood” in Perrault’s version gives us a better understanding and meaning to the fairy tale. Though the stories may appear to today’s standards of child safe storytelling, the writers are exempting the reason why we have the fairy tales today (Missing the meaning). Perrault wrote some of the original works of ‘The Little Red Riding Hood’, but the story has a different perspective and meaning (moral?) to the Grimm Brother’s version. Let’s take a deeper look as to why these two stories differ from each other and as well as today’s modernized children storytelling.…show more content…
Perrault’s version “The Little Red Riding Hood” both examine the girl who is innocent and carrying goods to her grandmother who lives quite some distance away; though in the Grimm’s version the mother tells her not to stray from the path. In both stories, the girl encounters the wolf which each one distracts her in different ways, so that the wolf can arrive at the grandmother’s place before her. (She was told to pick up a bouquet of flowers in Grimm’s story and to race to the grandmas’ house in Perrault’s) When she arrives at her grandmother’s place, both stories have a similar theme where the girl was questioning the grandmother as to why she looked and sounded unfamiliar. In the end, both the grandmother and little red riding hood were eaten up in Perrault’s version with a moral or warning at the end of the story; which I will include…show more content…
I say "wolf," but there are various kinds of wolves. There are also those who are charming, quiet, polite, unassuming, complacent, and sweet, who pursue young women at home and in the streets. And unfortunately, it is these gentle wolves who are the most dangerous ones of all.” However, in Grimm’s story goes on a bit longer and a huntsman saves the protagonist, as well as the grandmother from the wolf. In addition, the Grimm Brothers wrote an epilogue about a similar instance to show that ‘little red cap’ learned her lesson. In this instance, they write a similar story as before, but ignore and kill the wolf who tries to attack her and the grandmother. Both Perrault and the Grimm Brothers have written two different versions of the little red riding hood, which both tales provide good meaning and lesson to learn
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