Jungian Analysis of Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood is on the way to see Grandma (self--grandmother is same sex and a guiding figure)
Little Red Riding Hood meets the Big Bad Wolf [destructive animus--represents male desire to fight, kill, eat (and according to some interpretations, rape)]
Little Red Riding Hood meets the Big Bad Wolf disguised as Grandma (I'm going to take the sex change cue and call this the shadow--represents male-like violent and sexual hungers in a female form)
Little Red Riding Hood rescued by a hunter (positive animus)
Little Red Riding Hood, from the point of view of the Wolf
Wolf meets LRRH (positive animus -- guides him to Grandma's house)
Wolf done in by Hunter (shadow -- the hunter is the wolf's foil)
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