Explains Fairytales and the Symbolic Elements of "Little Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault

The simplicity, linearity, and one-dimensionality of fairytales have led to a belief in their allegorical nature, a conviction that fairytales mean something quite different from what stands in the text. (Adapted from Bottigheimer. 1986: 6)
This essay will discuss symbolic elements of "Little Red Riding Hood" in terms of the tales by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm.
In Perrault's version, the bourgeois society is being represented. Little Red Riding Hood is referred to as a "little village girl". …