timelets

“Little Red Riding Hood” is a tale about rape and the survival or non- survival of a rape victim. It is a tale about predators and how to deal with them.
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Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers transformed an oral folk tale about the social initiation of a young woman into a narrative about rape in which the heroine is obliged to bear the responsibility for sexual violation.


--- Jack Zipes, Why Fairy Tales Stick. 2006.