Implications of Fairy Tales on Cultures community: “Little Red Riding Hood”

Abstract

Literature as any discipline has particular purposes and messages through its different fields and sub-genres that give importance to each individual of one community; kids or adults. Thus, children literature with its literary products comes as a literary phenomenon which shifts most old folktales into written narratives addressed to kids and even adults. The literary products of this sub-genre of literature actually do affect the kids thought and behaviour that are considered as pillars of each community that shape a culture. The mid of the 18th century witnessed attempts to include children literature as a special innocent sphere for kids to educate and instruct them. This process of imposing this sub-genre of literature started to pick its fruits by the mid 19th century which was an age of prosperity to it. As a result, folktales as well started to be written and marked under the name of a fairy tale. These fairy tales actually have deep relation with different cultures around the world. ―Little Red Riding Hood‖ is one of those fairy tales which marked.........