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Assignment Requirement:  

Compare/Contrast:

1)In a Venn Diagram, record the similarities & differences between Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood and Red Riding Hood.

2)Share your Venn Diagram with a partner. Join with another group for a total of 4 per group.

3)Discuss how the differences between each version symbolize a relationship between women & the patriarchy as determined by the time in which it was written. Agree on one sentence to summarize your discussion.

Write:

In a properly structured expository paragraph (or essay) explain how the differences between Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood and Red Riding Hood explore women’s evolving relationship with the patriarchy.

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Venn Diagram

Writing

The Red Riding Hood and the Little Red Riding Hood by the Grimm brothers are both revealing the patriarchy. The Red Riding hood in the form of a 100-minute romantic film offered to adults mostly, while the Little Red Riding Hood published in a written fairy tale offered to kids majority. They are using different ways to make the audience more familiar with the aspect of patriarchy.

The Red Riding Hood took place in a village called Daggerhorn. It is on the edge of a forest, plagued by a werewolf. The 17 years old girl, Valerie, who yearns for freedom and love, couldn’t be with her true love because she was debarred from the united marriage decided by her family. However, she didn’t not yield to the fate. She faced up her true love during the disturbing of the werewolf and tried to break the destiny of being werewolf’s inheritor. Unlike other females in the movie, Valerie acts intelligently and bravely. She didn’t defeat by the menace from the werewolf. On the contrary, she executed the wolf, protected her lover from being hurt from the werewolf, by herself.

As a fairy tale,The Little Red Riding Hood is closer to the public. It’s a widely known story since the 19th century. Both The Red Riding Hood and The Little Red Riding Hood aiming to introduce the patriarchy, but in The Little Red Riding Hood, the little girl, who acts as the protagonist is around 8 years old. Unlike Valerie in The Red Riding Hood, she is innocent and doesn’t have a strong sense of protecting herself. She believed others without any precaution easily. It’s her first time to see a wolf. She doesn’t know the nature of “wolf beings”, so she tricked by the wolf, that causes a series of event. Both the little girl and her grandma were eaten by the wolf, but luckily they were saved by the hunter.

The object of the patriarchy is represented on different sides. In the Little Red Riding Hood, the sly wolf is the symbolized of the 17 century’s patriarchy. The wolf is strong, making the little girl has no ability for striking back, eaten by the wolf passivity. In this patriarchy, women are weak and don’t have much knowledge. They often bully and oppress by man. On the contrary, the movie The Red Riding Hood which was released in 2001, the object of the patriarchy wasn’t only the man (the werewolf), it included the influence of society. There are 47 characters in the movie, that formed a small society. People need money to live and women usually don’t have the ability to earn much money. The ideology of this small society makes people in the village thought it’s is appropriate to depend on their husbands. Valerie doesn’t even need the right to choose her own marriage. And also, under the threat of the werewolf, she should become the werewolf’s inheritor without thinking twice, because “the strong” make all the decisions.

To sum up, these two versions are realizing the same function of showing some aspects of Patriarchy. Relatively, in The Red Riding Hood, it is aimed to promote the women’s authority. Women also should know to resist when being in humiliation or threat . Compare to this, The Little Red Riding Hood is trying to call attention to protect selves and never trust strangers readily.