The Comparison Of Little Red Riding Hood And Zootopia

Stories change over time depending on the time period, context, and audience for which a text was written. Texts are retold in order to show the challenges that arise in the modern era in a way that resonates well with the audience. Little Red Riding Hood (1697) by Charles Peraulttells tells the story of a young girl who is manipulated and demonstrates the social reality of the event that women face. Zootopia(2016) an anthropomorphic movie by Byron Howard and Rich Moore depicts one of the stereotypical society's central ideas of prey vs predator. Both the text Little Red Riding Hood and the film Zootopia appeal to a modern audience in two ways: first, everyone wants to feel at home, but selfish desires by individuals endanger the safety of others, and second, the factors that influence an individual's identity.

When Red travels to her grandmothers in Little Red Riding Hood, she encounters the wolf, who becomes the reason for her innocence being taken away from her. The woods represent home to her because she frequently travelled through the forest to see her grandmother, and she always felt safe while travelling even after meeting the wolf because she trusted his innocence mask and didn't realise the true manipulative nature of the wolf. The use of () in “And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding Hood, and ate her all up,” It can be seen that the wolf eats red to satisfy his selfish desires for pleasure while also robbing a child of her innocence and denying her a second chance at life. This demonstrates the wolf's cruelty, making him a symbol of fear in the fairytale. The wolf is a symbol of fear in three forms that it embodies: nature, sex, and love, and this causes society to warn people about manipulative men like the wolf. This fairytale resonates with a modern audience because Red can represent women in society and the struggles they face in a world dominated by men, as represented by the wolf. Women had learned to protect themselves, but occasionally they fall prey to man's manipulative ways, which lures women's innocence by talking away their purity in an environment that women thought they were able to face, whereas, in reality, women will never be safe unless men's attitudes towards women in society change.

Similarly to the citizens of Zootopia, the citizens of Savanna Central live peacefully under the police department' s oath to protect the citizens from predators. In the beginning, the city in Zootopia represents a peaceful place where both prey and predators coexist and do not prey on each other, causing havoc among the citizens. The use of () in “We all make mistakes. Which means, hey, glass half full, we all have a lot in common,” demonstrates that everyone makes mistakes and that every human being has a flaw. Judy, the story's protagonist, suggests that people recognise the opportunity within themselves to make people feel safe in the world they live in because it is a human need to feel safe. Assistant Mayor Bellwether, a scorned sheep, appears to be an innocent assistant who wants good in the city because sheep are stereotyped as obedient and loyal, but the story later reveals that her actions have resulted in everyone fearing predators for her selfish desire of wanting to be the mayor. This demonstrates that selfishness is very individual in order to carry out their deeds. It is clear in both Little Red Riding Hood and Zootpia that people's selflessness can diminish one or many people living in a society. Because of selfishness and greed within a person, the central idea of people in a society wanting to feel safe and protected has changed. Therefore, both the fairytale and the film depict greed as a factor in destroying people's safety allowing the contemporary audience to resonate. People's selfish desires will cause others to suffer, and selfishness or wanting to please never changes if a lesson is not taught, as shown in Zootopia with Mayor Bellwether, but in the fairytale, the wolf is free.