The document contains analyses of "Little Red Riding Hood" from different perspectives. The outsider perspective suggests the little girl may have mental health issues for willingly talking to the wolf. A psychoanalyst view sees the wolf as representing a pedophile who tries to take advantage of the girl. A feminist reading views the story as showing that women cannot save themselves and require men to intervene. A socialist interpretation depicts the wolf as a capitalist seeking to profit from the girl and grandma, while the woodcutter represents the working class hero protecting the vulnerable.

1. Outsider Variation

2. 
 There may be something mentally wrong with the
little girl as she willingly has a casual conversation
with a scary wolf in the middle of the woods and
also tells him where her grandma lives. This could
also mean that the little girl is deliberately telling the
wolf where her grandma lives so that the wolf can go
eat her. This could highlight some sort of mental
health problems with the little girl.
 Because the wolf is confronting the little girl in the
woods, the wolf can be seen as a sexual threat
towards the little girl.
Psychoanalyst

3. 
 As the little girl is strolling through the woods on her own, the wolf
encounters her and starts to ask her what she’s doing and where she’s
going. This act could represent some sort of paedophilic character or a
rapist trying to get information out of the girl so he can take advantage
of her.
 Also, the wolf goes to the cottage and eats little red riding hoods
grandma. This could represent that the old woman was weak because
of her age, and because of this she deserved to be eaten. Also, the wolf
then pretends to be red riding hoods grandma, again to encounter her
and talk to her, as though he is taking the identity of someone close to
her so she would interact with him, to the wolf can again take
advantage of the little girl.
 The fact that the woodchopper has had to save the girl from the wolf
shows the authority between the two genders. It shows that men are
stronger and more powerful and that women can’t do anything to save
themselves.
Feminist

4. 
 The wolf could be represented as a capitalist as he is
greedy and he wants to profit in any way he can,
whether it be the sexual threat towards the little girl
or whether he just wants to take everything from the
grandma. The woodchopper could represent the
worker and the hero. The little girl and the grandma
could represent the poorer part of society who need
more care and looking after. The wolf and the girl
characters are represented as ‘The BIG bad wolf’ and
‘LITTLE red riding hood’ which shows the authority
between the two.
Socialist