Saturday, September 5, 2009

Little Red Riding Hood and Pregnancy


It is so hard to image the relationship between a little girl and the word "pregnancy", but in the disscusion we held in the class I figured out there actually were some stories in our reading were implied the relationship between these two elements.

In the early time (before 16th century), based on the most cultures, the son always reveice the heritage from the father after they die, and it is very unacceptable that if the father gave everything to his son who actually not made by him but his wife made with her adultery partners. So during that time period, man has bigger power and control their wives in sexuality issues (because men don't want their wife to have sex with another guy), and the women will get punish if they have affair with someone during that time. Also in the early version of LRRH, author descripted the wolf (implied as the men in the society during the time) has big power and dominated on females. But until later age, in Grimm's LRRH version, the role between the male and female has been changed little bit; he discripted the female received more freedom on sexuality by saying that: LRRH were escaped from wolf's stomach and then put stones back into wolf's stomach and killed the wolf. This phrase pointed out that the power on sexuality is not dominate by male anymore, the female could also pick any male to have sex with even they have a husband at the same time, especially in the modern age.

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