In Angela Carters "The Company of Wolves", she describes a new Red Riding Hood. Red Riding is valiant and confident. She knows what lies in the woods and yet she is determined to go through it no matter what she encounters. Unfortunately, she is not aware of the danger of man because she still has some innocence left in her that she doesn't see the evil that man has. She does not know who easy it was to be charmed by a wolf that is also a man. Yet without all of this knowledge she is able to seduce her presume to be attacker. She showed no fear when she knew the wolf-man wanted to kill her. She submitted to his animal desire and took off her clothes but she made him do the same and for some reason I think that she knew that without his clothes he will always be condemned to be a wolf. She had him toss his clothes too in the fire and she laid in bed with him without any fear. That takes lots of guts because if it were me I would have been dead. This makes this Red Riding Hood tougher than the other versions of the story. The other versions had the Red Riding Hood has a naive little girl or young lady who was in need of being rescued. She didn't carry a weapon and she knew that it wasn't her grandmother and yet she stayed in the house. This story by Angela Carter is similar like the versions of Roald Dahls and James Thurber she is not easily deceived by the wolf. These versions give you a young woman ready to fight for her life and make sure that she shows that she has the strength to do it on her own. She seductress and she is strong willed.
Reference:
Carter, A. "The Company of Wolves"
Published in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979)
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