What Really Happened to Little Red?

Thesis Statement: The red-cloaked heroine has been interpreted and analysed so many times in literary criticism and psychoanalytical treatises, art and entertainment and has appeared in different guises in a plethora of books and movies.

A classic fairytale famously open to a host of critical interpretations, Little Red Riding Hood did not start out as a cautionary tale. In early oral versions the heroine was neither devoured by the Big Bad Wolf nor did she rely on the hunter to save her. In the version recorded in France in the 19th century, Red Riding Hood complies ...