An Analysis on Rewriting of Little Red Cap in terms of Morality and Feminism小红帽的故事.docx

1、An Analysis on Rewriting of Little Red Cap in terms of Morality and Feminism小红帽的故事An Analysis on Rewriting of Little Red Cap in terms of Morality and Feminism AcknowledgementsIn writing this paper, I have benefited from the presence of my dear classmates. They generously helped me collect materials

2、I needed and gave me the invaluable suggestions. I hereby extend my grateful thank to them for their kind help, without which the paper would not have been what it is, Particularly my classmates and friends Zhang Yan and Wang Zhen, whose brilliant ideas and perceptive have proved immensely construct

3、ive.Particularly, I am deeply indebted to teacher Shen Qi, my supervisor, who guided me throughout my writing of this thesis. He carefully read the whole draft and offered painstaking and precious criticism. His standards of academic excellence have made my revision an exciting and gratifying experi

4、ence. My parents took good care of my life and gave me a lot of encouragement when I was working at this thesis. They always share my weal and woe. I feel much grateful and heartily owe achievement to them.Lastly, none of this would have been possible without the help of those individuals and organi

5、zations hereafter mentioned with gratitude: our school library and its staff, the library of Henan University of Technology. AbstractThe story of the Little Red Riding Hood is one of the best loved fairy tales of all time. It has many different versions, among which Grimms is the most famous and wid

6、ely known. What people are familiar with is the little cute, innocent girl with her little red cap, who is swallowed by the wolf and saved by the hunter. While, its original version and other versions are not widely known and its implied meanings are always ignored. This paper analyzes the Little Re

7、d Riding Hood based on three typical versions from the perspective of moral and feminism. Little Red Riding Hood was originally orally told in the French countryside and then first written down by Charles Perrault in 1697. Its a moral tale, warning girls and women that wolves may lurk in every guise

8、. Little Red Riding Hood soon spread beyond the borders of France. In 1865, Germany Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm rewrite the story: Little Red Cap. Grimm revised the story into a fairy-tale that was suitable for children. The Grimms story satisfied the requirement of bourgeois socialization and implied t

9、he rank of authority and moral lessons. The Grimms story is similar to the Perraults version at the point that both of the two versions are reflections of the rules and moral principles of a male-dominated bourgeois society. After the World War, especially second-wave feminism, abundant of feminism

10、works spring out. Red Riding Hood in The Merseyside Fair Story collective profoundly changed the stereotyped image of the women characters in the Little Red Cap series, expressed females independence and wisdoms, and reflected the awakening of females consciousness in male-dominated society. After t

11、he analysis of the above three versions, it is easy to see that just as Marxist opinion, literature reflects life, social and psychological content, and it also affects people.Key words：Red Riding Hood; morality; feminism; social background内容摘要无论什么时代，小红帽的故事始终是最受喜爱的童话故事之一。人们所熟悉的小红帽天真可爱，被大灰狼吞下但又被猎人救出。

12、这就是流传最为广泛，最受欢迎的格林版本。然而她的原始版本和其它众多版本包括其隐含意义都不为大众所知。 本论文选取三个典型的版本从道德和女性主义的角度进行分析对比。起先，小红斗篷是法国乡村口头相传的民间故事，第一个把它写下来的是查理斯，佩罗，创作于1697年。这是个充满道德训诫的故事，警告小女孩和妙龄少女保持贞洁。这个故事马上就流传开来，超越了法国国界。19世纪，德国作家格林兄弟把它改写为小红帽，这是为儿童量身打造，但他同时也契合了当时资本主义的要求，充满了权力等级和道德规则。从某种程度来说格林版的和佩罗版的有相似之处，他们都反映了男权社会的统治和规则。第一次世界大战后，尤其是第二波女性风潮运动

13、后，女性主义作品大量涌现。由女性主义者创作的马其塞特郡故事集中的红斗篷大大的改变了小红帽系列中的传统女性形象。它表现了女性的独立与智慧，反映了女性意识的觉醒。通过以上三个版本的对比分析，我们不难发现，从马克思主义的观点出发，文学反映生活，社会和心理内容，并能反过来影响人们。关键词：小红帽; 道德; 女性主义; 社会背景ContentsAcknowledgements.iAbstract (English).iiAbstract (Chinese).iii1. Introduction.12. The Definition of fairy tale.13. The story of littl

14、e red riding hood.23.1 Perraults nave Little Red Riding Hood.33.1.1 The background of the story.3 3.1.2 Implied meaning.3 3.2 Grimms submissive little red cap.4 3.2.1 The background of the story.4 3.2.2 The implied meaning of the story.53.3 Feminists rebellious person.63.31 The background of the sto

15、ry.63.32 The implied meaning of the story.74. The impacts of the fairy stories on society and children.85. Conclusion.9Works Cited.101. IntroductionFairy tales are always with talking creatures, great heroes, fair maidens, miraculous deeds, and heroic quests. While the main readers are often conside

16、red children, they can also be horribly grotesque. fairy tales are tend to be thought as eternal and universal, but even though those truths shift over time and place they express our collective truths. Take the story of Little Red Riding Hood, for example a tale we all know well, though not as well

17、 as we think. Little Red Riding Hood is one of the best loved fairy tales of all time. Of all the traditional fairy tales, Little Red Riding Hood is undoubtedly the one that has existed for the longest period of time and which has spawned the greatest number of likenesses in the field of childrens l

18、iterature. Charles Dickens claimed little red riding hood as his first love, and felt that if only he could have married her, he would have known perfect bliss. Yet it was changed through the years. The origins of Little Red Riding Hood can be traced to an oral tradition during the witch persecution

19、s of France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Then it is soon spread throughout the world and passed down until today. During the past 300 years, Little Red Riding Hood is rewritten many times. The image and the meaning are changed dramatically as well. The objective of this paper is to an

20、alyze the image change, its implied moral meaning and its reflected awakenging of the females consciousness in male-dominated society. In order to do so, I will choose three versions, Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault, Little Red Cap by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm and Red Riding Hood by committ

21、ed feminists of The Merseyside Fairy Story Collective in Liverpool. These three versions are typical and written in different time and by writers from different countries.2. The Definition of fairy taleAccording to Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore:fairy tale is the usual English term for a grou

22、p of oral narratives centered on magical tests, quests, and transformations, which are found throughout Europe and in many parts of Asia too. They are defined by their plots, which follow standard basic patterns. their function is to be oral entertainment for adults as well as children, and telling

23、them well is a skilled art (Simpson and Roud 134).The term fairy tale only appeared in the 18th century, almost certainly as a translation of the French Contes des Fes, the title of a book by Madame dAulnois published in 1698 and translated into English the following year. It is universally understo

24、od, but not in fact accurate, since many of the best-loved stories have no fairies in them, though magic abounds; consequently some scholars prefer the terms Wonder Tales or Magic Tales. Originally, adults were the audience of fairy tales that may have been gruesome or include sexual references. But

25、 in the 19th and 20th centuries the fairy tale became associated with childrens literature. In the modern era, fairy tales were altered so that they could be read to children and might include a moralistic stance or warning against dangers, they began as chiefly oral stories passed from generation t

26、o generation. And in contemporary literature many authors have used the form of fairy tales for various reasons. Obviously, fairy tales have changed with time. For example, Little Red Riding Hood was originally written by Charles Perrault, as a tale with sexual image. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (also k

27、nown as The Brothers Grimm) wrote down Germany version: Little Red Cap to make it more acceptable for children.3. The story of little red riding hoodLittle Red Riding Hood has gone through progressive development, since its original oral version was told 300 years ago, it has many versions till now. But it is known mainly from two literary sources: the 1697 version by Charles Perrault (1628-1703) contained in his collection Contes du temps pass (Tales of Olden Times),