Topic > Criticism of Zohar Shavit in fairy tales - 1995

It was so dark in the belly of the wolf!” And then the old grandmother managed to get out alive, although she could barely breathe. Little Red Riding Hood immediately went and got some large stones and filled the wolf's belly with them." (Grimm 15). The wolf's dark stomach represents the mother's negative feelings. As Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother come out into the light, things begin to improve in the relationship between husband and wife. The stones that are placed in the wolf's stomach symbolize leaving the past behind was able to get up and move forward, which shows that the husband will make a change and fulfill his desire. wife to be loved. At the end of the story Little Red Riding Hood says to herself: “You will never again go away from the path to go into the woods, when your mother has forbidden you to do so” (Grimm 16). had to listen to her mother and follow what she was told. This refers to the mother staying with her husband because he eventually came to love her and create her