A sexualidade presente nos contos de chapeuzinho vermelho: uma análise comparativa entre the company of wolves, little red riding hood e little red cap

Abstract

The present work aimed to analyze, in a comparative way, the intertextual aspects between the tales The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge by Charles Perrault, and Rotkäppchen (Little Red Cap), version by the Grimm brothers. The general goal is to understand how sexuality focused on the story of Angela Carter is present in the children's tales that precede it. For the development of the research, a qualitative bibliographic study was implemented, in which the analysis of books and the content of the stories compared here were used as study procedures. The research was based on theory: Bettelheim (1976), Zipes (2006), Shavit (1999), Mendes (1999) and Jenkins (1958), theorists who approach the symbology of the tale in their works. The Red Riding Hood story, as well as other children's tales and fables, uses fantasy elements to present moral lessons or show the consequences of our acts when we disobey orders. At the end of the research it was noticed that the tale The Company of Wolves has a different focus, which evidences the transition of the girl to a woman, accentuating her carnal desires. The protagonist of Carter is able to control the werewolf through her body, that is, her newly emerged sexuality. Thus, the tale has an adult content and explicit, differing from the children's versions cited here