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Fairy Tales: Red Riding Hood
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These mature fairy tales tell "the rest of the story." Find out why the Pied Piper had such a problem with kids. Were Hansel and Gretel juvenile serial killers? Did Red Riding Hood have a wolf fetish? Find out this and more in FAIRY TALES WITH A FREUDIAN FLAIR: A Collection of frivolous fallacies. This is a hilarious collection of ten short stories that will make you never look at fairy tales and nursery rhymes the same way again. It's a rollicking romp through the demented mind of S. Joan Popek.
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[One] indispensable type of characters in classic fairy tales is the evils. A controversial topic about them is the impact of their violent, brutal deeds and terrible, inhuman punishments on children’s psyche. Examples of those cruel deeds are numerous. In "Hansel and Gretel", the witch intends to cook Hansel and Gretel and eat them, but finally she is burned to death. In "Little Red Riding Hood", the vicious wolf swallows Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, while his belly is then cut by a huntsman. Tyranny and cannibalism seem to be inevitable in fairy tales.
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Other works have retold familiar fairy tales in a darker, more horrific or psychological variant aimed primarily at adults. Notable examples are Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast[81] and The Company of Wolves, based on an Angela Carter's retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.[82] Likewise, Princess Mononoke[83] and Pan's Labyrinth[84] create new stories in this genre from fairy-tale and folklore motifs.
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Annotated fairy tales, including information about their histories, similarities with various tales, alternate tales, bibliographies, illustrations, art work and other information. Tales include Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, and Sleeping Beauty--all the usual suspects.
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The second fairy tale to be discussed is "Little Red Riding Hood". In this story, Little Red Riding Hood, a charming girl, encounters a cunning wolf on the way to her grandmother’s house. The wolf asks her where her grandmother lives, and she listens to him and answers his question precisely. Consequently, he finds her grandmother’s house and eats them both. The theme of this story is manifest: children ought not trust and listen to all sorts of people in the outside world, including the gentle ones. As Bruno Bettelheim states in The Uses of Enchantment, "As for wolves, these come in all variations; and among them the gentle wolves are the most dangerous of all, particularly those who follow young girls into the streets, even into their homes" (P.168). This lesson seems to be simple, but it is a very important one.
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The following unit plan is an attempt to interweave the study of fairy tales into a kindergarten curriculum unit, specifically the study of different versions of Little Red Riding Hood. We will focus on comparing different versions of the same story, identifying characters, setting, and important events, illustrate the characters and setting through dramatic play and different forms of art, as well as explore similarities or parallels with the characters’ lives and our own lives.
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