Little Red Riding Hood Homework

After reading Little Red Cap, http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/ridinghood/stories/redcap.html answer the following questions

Identifying Representations in Fairy Tales

1. Who is punished? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Why are they punished? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What does this say about males/females? (circle one) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Who is rewarded? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Why are they rewarded? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What does this say about males/females? (circle one) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What is the role of men in this fairy tale? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What does this say about male’s attitudes and personality? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What does it say about the power of men? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. What positioning techniques are used to help you understand this fairy tale?

Binary Oppositions          Romanticising        Marginalisation         Point of View           Language Choices Intertextuality                            Foreshadowing                 Humour               Gaps                     Silences

In your books you should identify where/how each of these techniques occurs. E.g. Binary oppositions found in most fairy tales are Good/Bad and Pretty/Ugly