Little Red Cap: Sexually Curious And Disturbed

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Disclaimer: It would be impossibly difficult to explain the sexual connotations of all versions of Little Red Riding Hood and similar titles, thus I am solely focusing on the Brothers Grimm version of Little Red Cap. Because of the popularity of the Brothers version and my personal liking to it, this is what I will be interpreting.

A description of Little Red Cap is a girl who desires to explore her sexual self in an unusual manner. She longs to find a “man” and now does not limit herself to those only her fantasies crave. The wolf is a beastly, hairy fellow who is not attractive, but is simply a man. A man is all she wants at this point, just to discover her newly developed, raging hormones. Most of this is uncovered by reading the conversation between the two in the woods while Little Red is on her way to her grandmother’s house.
Before Little Red meets the wolf, her mother, like a protective parent should, tells Little Red that if she wards off the path to her grandmothers, the bottle of wine will shatter. The bottle, so fragile and pure, represents Little Red herself. If she does not stay on the right track, she can fall victim to the evil that infiltrates our daily lives. The statement made by mother tempts Little Red to test the breaking point of the bottle. Parental figures constantly tell their children not to do things, not because they are bad, but because those actions may lead to the uncovering of something new that is negative and detrimental. These statements lead the children to do exactly what the parents say not to do because being rebellious is what youths at Little Red’s age, although exactly unknown, do. They in part want to break away from the parents, but also to explore what they do not know. Learning and curiosity are both a part of human nature itself.
When Little Red meets the wolf halfway through the woods, his second question is “where does your grandmother live, Little Red Cap...