Something went wrong. Please contact support fatherly. Like fatherly on Facebook. Something went wrong please contact us at support fatherly. The motif, idea, and characters are almost identical, but the main antagonist is a tiger instead of a wolf. Next, the wolf exploits her naivety by asking her to get into the bed, where he then attacks and eats her.
According to him, the story should be a forewarning for young, pretty girls to avoid strangers. Further, he noted that he chose a wolf to be a villain because wolves resembled people. The brothers wrote a volume of the story in which Little Red Riding Hood and her Granny encounter and do away with another wolf using a strategy supported by their previous experience. You must be logged in to post a comment. Skip to content. Flickr Photo Courtesy Fairy tales are extremely old, some experts estimate the tradition is years old.
Leave a Reply Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment. It's been suggested that the story may have originated in East Asia and spread westward, and as it spread west, it split into two distinct tales, "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Wolf and the Kids. A popular theory is that they're both descended from Chinese tradition, because these Chinese tales have elements of both.
My analysis shows that, in fact, the East Asian versions aren't the source. For example, in the East Asian tales we find a version of the famous dialogue between the victim and the villain which goes, "What big eyes you have! This is supported by the fact that it's missing from the 11th-century poem, which is the earliest known variant. A nanny goat leaves her kids at home and tells them not to open the door for anyone. What she doesn't realize is that a wolf is outside the house and overhears her.
While she's out, the wolf comes to the door and pretends to be the nanny goat. When he gets in, he eats the kids all up. At the end of the story, the nanny goat tracks him down, kills him, and cuts open his belly and frees her kids. What makes stories about predators disguised as beloved relatives so appealing to different cultures around the world? Ultimately, the predator is metaphorical. The stories are really about how people aren't always who they seem to be, which is a really important lesson in life.
Even people that we think we can trust can actually be out to harm us. In fact, it's precisely because we trust them that we are vulnerable to what their harmful intentions might be toward us. We could regard folktales as a marker of human history showing how different societies have interacted with one another and how people have moved around the world. I think there's a bigger and more interesting question about human imagination.
These folktales embody fantasies and experiences and fears. They're a really good way of reading, through the products of our imagination, what we really care about.
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