Is Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood Relevant to the Modern Wor

Is Charles Perraults weensy Red Riding punk rocker relevant to the Modern World? A story commonly spread through word of mouth, Charles Perrault wrote an early rendition of Little Red Riding Hood in 1697. Between the late 17th century and today, there start been a few changes in societal norms, customs, and understandings of social values. To summarize, laws based on religion pass on given way to laws based on sciencein turn, scientists have taken their newfound social power and discovered ways to destroy both life on Earthfollowing that, humans have practiced leaving the planet, preparing for the inevitable day when our self-created nuclear holocaust gives us no new(prenominal) choiceand lastly, mixed oppressed social groups, recognizing that they would also like a seat on their starship to salvation, have fought for their civil rights and equality through various social reform movements. A side effect, political correctness, is the attempt to rid the English language of any terms, phrases, or expressions that would encourage our society to remain root in its biased theories of the past. Thus, we are now at an age where a maxim is placed upon the empowerment of the individual, no matter who you are or what at once oppressed group you may represent, with an equally strong maxim placed upon breaking any barriers that block the empowerment of the individual.Thats greatbut what does it have to do with Little Red Riding Hood? With so much happening in the past four hundred years, stories which may have previously seemed perfect and timeless have perhaps become socially outdated. This could be the case with many fairy tales, and Perraults Little Red Riding Hood is certainly no exception. In general, his vers... ... has taken the civil rights movements of the 20th century and, perhaps, transformed them into raging individualism. The backwardness is clear Whether its a hunter, woodcutter, or doctor, a person trying to save anothers life is admirable and a Good Samaritan, and most certainly not an oppressive chauvinist valuable of reprimand or lawsuits. Political correctness may have its values however, for Garner and many other Americans, it represents social movements that have been taken too far. through with(predicate) satire, Garner displays his yearning for simpler times, when wolves just ate little girls who talked to strangers. Works CitedPerrault, Charles. Little Red Riding Hood. The Classic Fairy Tales. Ed. Maria Tatar. New York Norton, 1999. 11-13.Garner, James Finn. Little Red Riding Hood. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. New York MacMillan, 1994. 1-4.