LRRH's Trial & Tribulations

1. The Jack Zipes reading is really heavy, it took me a while to get through the text because I had to keep re-reading what I wasn't understanding. The reading was interesting, I had never seen Little Red Riding Hood from that perspective. It was mentioned that the Grimm brothers and Charles Perrault turned their version into one where the “woman” is ‘asking’ for it. Obviously, in today's society, nobody would ever think to write a text with those implications, so I was a bit shocked. Even the 3 scenes/drawings that are mostly associated with the fairytale hint that what happened was Little Red’s fault and the only way to “escape” was for another man to save her. In the end, I understood that under the historical context that this was written in, little red was objectified as the face of male desires. Especially under the Grimm and Perrault versions, there was no other way for little red because she was to be portrayed the way men wanted.

   1. Questions:

      1. Why are men “victims” of temptation and women are to blame?

      2. What do you think the women from this time felt about Little Red Riding Hood’s meaning.

      3. Why were so many illustrations influenced by each other?

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3. The page I selected was explaining that little red knew what she was doing and approached the wolf with hidden intentions. How else can this be interpreted if the authors that rewrote it this way left no room for any other interpretation? Pictures drawn about this scenario are clearly drawn with the text in mind. The text explained that the illustrations initially drawn by one or two illustrators were then used as inspiration for future drawings in versions of different languages. I dislike that this is the interpretation that has to be attached to the fairytale simply because it was written by men for men and their “fantasies". I understood all the words on the page I selected, however, I did have to look up some words in the text as a whole. Some of these words are hegemony and disseminated.

4. Mind map.