Charles Perrault. Biography[edit] Charles Perrault was born in Paris to a wealthy bourgeois family, the seventh child of Pierre Perrault and Paquette Le Clerc.
He attended good schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service, following in the footsteps of his father and older brother Jean. He took part in the creation of the Academy of Sciences as well as the restoration of the Academy of Painting. In 1654, he moved in with his brother Pierre, who had purchased a post as the principal tax collector of the city of Paris.
Little Red Riding Hood. Little Red Riding Hood. The Tale and its History Perrault was the first to write down "Little Red Riding Hood," but the tragic ending of this version has caused some to question whether it has a genuine folk origin.
The version most widely known today is based on the Brothers Grimm version. It is about a girl called Little Red Riding Hood, after the red hood she always wears. The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her grandmother. A wolf (often identified as the Big Bad Wolf) wants to eat the girl but is afraid to do so in public (sometimes thare are woodcutters watching). The tale makes the clearest contrast between the safe world of the village and the dangers of the forest, conventional antitheses that are essentially medieval, though no versions are as old as that. Pre-Perrault These early variations of the tale differ from the currently known version in several ways. Little Red Riding Hood: a casebook - Alan Dundes. Little Red Riding Hood. And other tales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 333 translated and/or edited by D.
L. Ashliman © 1999-2013 Contents Return to D. Little Red Riding Hood Charles Perrault Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen. One day her mother, having made some cakes, said to her, "Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, for I hear she has been very ill. Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village. As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he dared not, because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest.
"Does she live far off? " "Oh I say," answered Little Red Riding Hood; "it is beyond that mill you see there, at the first house in the village. " "Well," said the wolf, "and I'll go and see her too. "Who's there? " Adaptations of Little Red Riding Hood. Aarne–Thompson classification system. The Aarne–Thompson tale type index is a multivolume listing designed to help folklorists identify recurring plot patterns in the narrative structures of traditional folktales, so that folklorists can organize, classify, and analyze the folktales they research.
First developed by Antti Aarne (1867–1925) and published as Verzeichnis der Märchentypen in 1910, the tale type index was later translated, revised, and enlarged by Stith Thompson (1885–1976) in 1928 and again in 1961.[1] The Aarne–Thompson tale type index organizes folktales into broad categories like Animal Tales, Fairy Tales, Religious Tales, etc. Within each category, folktale types are further subdivided by motif patterns until individual types are listed.
Use in folkloristics[edit] According to D. Organizing folktale types[edit] The Aarne–Thompson tale type index divides tales into sections with an "AT" number for each entry. Closely related folktales are often grouped within a type. Hans-Jörg Uther[edit] Response[edit] Little Red Riding Hood. Little Red Riding Hood, or Little Red Ridinghood, also known as Little Red Cap or simply Red Riding Hood, is a French[1] and later European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf.
The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings. The story was first published by Charles Perrault.[2] This story is number 333 in the Aarne-Thompson classification system for folktales.[3] Little Red Riding Hood, still young after 7 centuries. Little Red Riding Hood is a very popular fairy tale about a young girl meeting a wolf while delivering a cake to her Grandmother.
Many times throughout history, this story has been changed to make it adapt to that particular period and to different audiences. If there is a single moral to be learned from the different versions, it would seem to be "Be aware of the difference between the safe village and the danger that lies beyond. Versions of Little Red Riding Hood date back to a time when only oral stories were told.
Many of these were for adults as they contained a lot of sexual and violent interaction. History of Little Red Riding Hood.