What messages do children's stories hide?

TheLittle Red Riding Hood talereveals thesexualityof a girl in puberty for whom she is not ready. He doubts between what he wants to do and what his mother tells him to do. There is a component of narcissism, because she likes to be seduced and that the wolf – the father’s issue – devotes all his attention to her. TheEve mythit is represented in the fact that it is the female figure that is tempted by her curiosity. Little Red Riding Hood disobeys the order not to speak to strangers and allows herself to be fooled by the wolf.
The story differentiates between the town, inhabited and safe, and the forest, full of dangers. This contrast wastypical of the Middle Ages, when the story was originally conceived. In stories, the characters are either good or bad. Evil and goodness are never present in a person at the same time, as in reality, but in the form of archetypes. And it is that children are not prepared for ambiguity, they need certainties that literature provides them. The literature fulfills a therapeutic function.
Almost all children fear sex, but at the same time want to discover theerotic secretsof adults. In Perrault’s version, Little Red Riding Hood is both scared and fascinated by the wolf – “What a big mouth you have!” -. Unconsciously, seek arousal. Bruno Bettelheim says inPsychoanalysis of fairy talesthat “many parents believe that they should hide their instincts for sex and violence from their children and only present them with the kind side of life.” But the stories, in their old versions, did show that dark side, although with time they were sweetened. For example, in theLittle red riding hoodde Perrault (1697), the wolf eats the girl and her grandmother. Instead, the Grimm brothers introduced the hunter who saves them in their 1812 version.happy endingit was made mandatory in Disney movies.