![]() Some of the modern versions were just silly, but then again, so were some of the Victorian ones. ![]() ![]() Zipes discusses the way some versions have her and her grandmother handling the problem themselves, and sometimes they need rescuing, and they range from having the disobedient child (and foolish old woman) being eaten, to happy endings. Another section discusses the way the illustrations portray both the girl and the wolf. The discussion covers the way different writers in different periods dealt with the subjects and turned it from a story about the dangers of the forest and necessity of obedience to a warning about sexual predators to empowering women with many twists along the way to make political points. ![]() It includes both discussion and thirty seven examples from the 1697 Charles Perrault version to a couple from 1990, including The Company of Wolves, a strange 1979 story that was turned into an even weirder 1985 movie, which inspired me to re-read this book. This is a fascinating study of the evolution of folktales by focusing on one: the Red Riding Hood (or Red Cap) story from its earliest appearance through the present (as of when the book was written). ![]()
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