Cannibalism In Charles Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood

Cannibalism is an unwieldy subject, such that it, in itself, is a shocking matter. Have you heard about John Wayne Gacy? Just thinking about eating another human makes the next person squirm in his seat. Ideally, you would have to take a person in and look at him. Afterward, you would take a dagger and pulse it through his veins. While you are sitting in the front-row seat of this show, you get the satisfaction of blood splurging all over your face, your body, and your hands. In essence, you have shed the blood of a man and taken away his life with your own hands. It is almost as if you just stood on a pedestal and proclaimed your dominance over him. What do you do next? You season the meat and maybe even store some part of him in the freezer

In Little Red Riding Hood adaptation of “The Story of Grandmother,” you see the cannibalism of grandmother by the girl as a transient flow of wisdom from the grandmother to the girl. In another adaptation, “Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault, you see the cannibalism of the girl by the wolf as sexual exploitation. Finally, in “The Company of Wolves,” by Angela Carter, you notice that the wolf eats the grandmother. However, the wolf is unable to eat the little girl at the end. This depiction of cannibalism is a portrayal of the wolf obtaining vulnerability from the

You first meet your partner and get to know him or her. As soon as you do, you finally understand who they are as a person. With that, you can decide to stay with him or her or leave. Nevertheless, with Lady Gaga’s case, she is entranced by the bad boy, even though he has the potential to be a “wolf in disguise.” With this in mind, Lady Gaga possibly eludes to the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. Throughout the song, she sings:

“He ate my heart (I love that girl)

He ate my heart (wanna talk to her, she’s hot as hell)”

These two lines imply that Lady Gaga has been so enamored by her lover that she feels like she has lost her ability to love other people because of how much her partner has consumed from her. In essence, she is lusting so much for her partner that she feels like her partner has eaten her heart. Additionally, the latter part of the second line further continues with the idea that the boy is bad or possibly treats her badly with the colloquial diction of calling a girl “hot.” The song continues in the second verse