Category: Little Red Riding Hood

The Company of Wolves is a metaphorical, supernatural story derived from the original folktale of Little Red Riding Hood. Similar to the original tale, the story takes place next to a dangerous forest, where a pretty adolescent girl, who will be called Red, goes on a quest to deliver a basket of baked goods to…

Little red cap, and The Worlds Wife, as a whole confronts the subordinate role of women in traditional tales. Within the collection we see a series of underdeveloped and discarded literary figures take an active role in their texts and often rebuttal the marginalisation which is thrust upon them by the original male leads of…

The defeat of the damsel in distress Chapter One: The Most Beautiful Child of Them All In order to understand the journey of defeating the damsel in distress, it is needed to analyse the first variations. Often when referring to Little Red Riding Hood, it could be argued that both the Perrault and Grimms Brothers…

‘The Company of Wolves’ is an editorial by Angela Carter which is a gothic, women’s activist, moralistic and honorable great fantasy. It retells the story of ‘Minimal Red Riding Hood.’ The wolves are utilized as a similitude to appear and speak to the men who might be out to take the virginity of a young…

Everyone knows the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. But what some people dont know is that the story has had several adaptions, each of which have been reimagined into something that is like the original story, yet more interesting. Some of those adaptations, however, were written as exaggerations of what the narrator was…

‘The Company of Wolves’ is an editorial by Angela Carter which is a gothic, women’s activist, moralistic and honorable great fantasy. It retells the story of ‘Minimal Red Riding Hood.’ The wolves are utilized as a similitude to appear and speak to the men who might be out to take the virginity of a young…

Everyone knows the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. But what some people dont know is that the story has had several adaptions, each of which have been reimagined into something that is like the original story, yet more interesting. Some of those adaptations, however, were written as exaggerations of what the narrator was…