Fairy Tales Blog 2- David Castillo

Fairy tales:

I think the story of Little Red Riding Hood  although having a very generic story line, has a lot of application to the real world both literal and metaphorically. One thing that stood out to me of the reoccurring theme throughout the stories of Little Red Riding Hood is that throughout many of  the different versions , there seems to be a implication of  to be cautious and not believe everything you see/hear because if you do people can take advantage or use you. This happens many times throughout Red Riding Hood where she listens and takes everything that the Wolf says  that in some cases gets her killed or put in a situation where she has to be miraculously saved. Although is an exaggeration in the fairy tale, to an extent it is accurate and applicable to the real world where people are taken advantage of due to not much exposure to the world ( In the case of Red Riding Hood her exposure of the outside). In two of the different versions of the Red Riding Hood, her foolishness and not being knowledgeable puts in her in sticky situations in one( where she is saved by a lumber jack or the 2nd(      where she gets eaten by the wolf due to being taken advantage of.

Another thing applicable to the real world that was also touched on earlier is that in society, there is time where we are not necessarily guillable,but just not very exposed to certain situations or have a first encounter of something bad that kind of teaches us a lesson, and that is seen also In Red Riding Hood.As for us it may be like first time going to college, first heartbreak(etc etc) but in this fairy tale its Red Riding Hood first time hearing and seeing a wolf which due to her not knowing anything which is int necessarily her fault, takes her almost being eaten and dieing ( or dieing in some versions completely )

Another common theme that is shown in Red Riding Hood but also in many fairy tales that is not very true/accurate is that when you are in trouble or just in general, someone will be able to get you out of trouble despite you being in trouble due to a character flaw or mistake. For example in many fairytales as well as Red Riding Hood, she is saved despite her flaw of being clueless and not listening, causes her to be almost eaten where she ends up just  being saved in the nick of time by a lumberjack who just so happened to see the wolf.  This idea is challenged however in different versions where despite being attempted to  be saved Red Riding Hood ends up being eaten. This is very unrealistic and is a common theme in fairy tales, where in actuality that does not happen in the real world often