Comparing Goldilocks And Red Riding Hood

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Almost everyone knows these two bedtime stories by heart: Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood, arguably two of the most well-known fairy tales meant for children. Both are short, easy-to-understand stories about two not very bright girls who both, in turn, make rather dumb choices. These stories teach children valuable life lessons, such as don’t break into a strangers house, eat their breakfast and then proceed to destroy their personal property. Since both girls do not appear to be the brightest of the bunch, making numerous dumb decisions is not surprising. Goldilocks makes more stupid choices of the two. Here’s a quick run-down of her terrible decision making: 1. Wandering the woods alone, 2. Breaking and entering, 3. Destruction of private property, and 4. just being a jerk in general (Why would you eat someone else’s breakfast?). Red Riding Hood also made numerous bad decisions, such as: 1. Not heeding the Lumberjack’s warning about the dangerous wolf (in fact, skipping faster), 2. Not running away from the suspicious wolf dressed in her grandmother’s nightgown, and 3. a general lack of awareness. …show more content…

For one, both girls had different set objectives although they both had the relatively same outcome. Red Riding Hood’s objective was to travel through the forest to deliver baked goods to her ill grandmother. Goldilocks was simply out for her own entertainment, with no other stated objective. From the textual evidence we can infer that Goldilocks is the more adventurous, rule breaker of the two. We can also infer that Red Riding Hood is the rule follower and conformist of the duo. Red Riding hood was being helpful, and caring, by delivering the baked goods to her GrandMother. Goldilocks, on the other hand, was clearly selfish and

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