Little Red Riding Hood & The Disturbing Reality of Folktales

Why is Little Red Riding Hood so disturbing? In this video, I dive into the dark origins of classic fairy tales and explore what they reveal about life as an early modern peasant, and the brutal day-to-day dangers that they faced. Folklore is super intense it turns out. Discover the real meaning of Little Red Riding Hood, beyond the sanitized Grimm version, through the lens of historian Robert Darnton and cultural history. 00:00 Little Red Riding Hood is super weird 01:05 The psychoanalytic interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood 02:20 Robert Darnton and the historical interpretation 03:05 The original version of Little Red Riding Hood 05:01 Other weird folkales 06:31 Life as an 18th century French peasant 07:58 Tom Thumb and the realism of folktales 11:34 The arbitrary reality of death Check out this other video that I did...    • Moby-Dick Is Actually About God | Moby-Dic...   #booktube #literaryanalysis #history #folktales #videoessay