Analyse du petit chaperon rouge en anglais

Fairy tales are for both our conscious and our unconscious.

What happens to Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother can be seen in a very different light.

One may wonder why the wolf refrains from devouring the little girl when he meets her. Perrault presents an apparently rational explanation: the wolf would have eaten the little girl if he had not been afraid of the loggers. As in the story of Perrault, the wolf is only the male seducer, we understand that an adult does not seduce a girl if he is likely to be seen or heard by other adults. Things are different in the story of the Brothers Grimm, where we are made to understand that the delay is justified by the extreme greed of the wolf. But the wolf could have eaten the little girl and then fooled the grandmother. The behavior of the wolf makes sense if we assume that to have the Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf must first get rid of the (grand) mother. As long as the (grand) mother is around, the little girl will not be his. But once the (grand) mother has disappeared, he is free to act according to his desires which, meanwhile, must be repressed. History, on this level, deals with the unconscious desire of the child to be seduced by his father (the wolf).

During puberty, the old Oedipal aspirations of the girl are reactivated; so are the desire of the father, the tendency to seduce him and the desire to be seduced by him. Then the girl feels that she deserves to be punished very severely by the mother for wanting to rob him.

At a different level of interpretation, we can say that if the wolf does not devour Little Red Riding Hood right away, it means that he wants to be with her in bed: she will not be "devoured" until after sexual intercourse. Although the children may never have heard of the pairs of animals that one of the partners must die during the sexual act, these destructive aspects are very vivid in the child who thinks that the sexual act is an act of violence committed by one of the partners on the other. This strange juxtaposition of contradictory emotions characterizing sexual knowledge of the child is personalized by Little Red Riding Hood. History has a strong unconscious attraction for children as well as for adults who are led by it to vaguely remember the childish fascination exercised over them with regard to sexuality.

Unlike the version of Perrault, the tale of the Brothers Grimm, does not insist on sexual seduction. The main conflict is between what interests the child and what his parents require of him. The story implies that the child does not know how dangerous it can be to give in to desires that he considers innocent, and therefore he must learn to be aware of these dangers. Or more exactly, it is life that will teach him, at his expense.

The wolf personifies the wickedness of the child when he disobeys his parents and allows himself to attempt or to be sexually tempted. As for the hunter, he does not let himself be carried away by his emotions. His self (his reason) asserts himself not to immediately kill the wolf despite the solicitations of that. He understands that it is more important to save the grandmother and the little girl; thus, he opens the wolf's belly with scissors. The hunter is a nice character who saves the good and punishes the bad guy. In the role the hunter plays, the violence is inspired by a highly social design: to save the two women. The deliverance is as if it were a caesarean, which is a way of suggesting the idea of ​​birth and pregnancy. Although the hunter intervenes

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