Little Red Cap: Sexually Curious And Disturbed
Disclaimer: It would be impossibly difficult to explain the sexual connotations of all versions of Little Red Riding Hood and similar titles, thus I am solely focusing on the Brothers Grimm version of Little Red Cap. Because of the popularity of the Brothers version and my personal liking to it, this is what I will be interpreting.
A description of Little Red Cap is a girl who desires to explore her sexual self in an unusual manner. She longs to find a ?man? and now does not limit herself to those only her fantasies crave. The wolf is a beastly, hairy fellow who is not attractive, but is simply a man. A man is all she wants at this point, just to discover her newly developed, raging hormones. Most of this is uncovered by reading the conversation between the two in the woods while Little Red is on her way to her grandmother?s house.
Before Little Red meets the wolf, her mother, like a protective parent should, tells Little Red that if she wards off the path to her grandmothers, the bottle of wine will shatter. The bottle, so fragile and pure, represents Little
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