Little Red Riding Hood: Werewolf And Prostitute

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The text, "Little Red Riding Hood: Werewolf and Prostitute" by Richard Chase, Jr. and David Teasley comment on the original story of Charles Perrault's "Little Red Riding Hood" by comparing wolf to werewolf and female characters to prostitutes who disrupt the social order that all sustains man's power. Authors suggest that the choice of path lead to different decisions and compare the little girl who walks into the forest to the prostitute that was used to describe women who didn't follow the norm in the 16th century. The wolf is concluded in the text as the werewolf who is half animal and half human that supports the original version in which wolf can complete human actions. From Rebecca Williams's "Unlocking The Vampire Diaries," it suggests …show more content…
The wolf and little red riding hood have a symmetrical relationship that is defined in the text, “Little Red Riding Hood: Werewolf and Prostitute.” Two authors mention “In a double inversion, the girl brings bread and milk and is offered meat and wine, which is actually her grandmother’s flesh and blood” (Chase and Teasley 772). The little girl brings bread and milk which symbolize her clean and pure body that she is still a virgin. However, her foods exchange foods that are made from her grandma’s meat and blood which alludes to her lost virginity that she destroys herself with grandma’s blood. The interchange also is her decision becomes a prostitute which she engages in sexual interaction for eating her grandma’s meat. For wolf who provides and prepare grandma’s meat for the little is an act of paying for her to sleep with him. This interaction shows an existed symmetrical relationship between the wolf and little red riding hood that they both prepare foods and commits sex together. It suggests how little red riding hood and the wolf are similar where they both eat grandmother up. Such brutal action reveals the little girl’s wicked side that she chooses to be cannibalism and is going through her sin by eating her another self, the grandma. The little girl’s decision of being a prostitute receives societal disapproved that she is alone without man’s guidance which