Extended Research Essay Books and Analysis+Quotes and Notes. (Haha that rhymed)

'As folktales became divested of their humorous elements, they also lost their subversive edge and became assimilated into the official canon of children’s literature, which had always been more interested in producing docile minds than playful bodies.'

Tatar, Maria. Off With Their Heads: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 1992.

‘In “Little Red Riding Hood” the kindly grandmother undergoes a sudden replacement by the rapacious wolf which threatens to destroy the child. How silly a transformation when viewed objectively, and how frightening---we might think the transformation unnecessarily scary, contrary to all possible reality. But when viewed in terms of a child’s ways of experiencing, is it really any more scary than the sudden transformation of his own kindly grandma into a figure who threatens his very sense of self when she humiliates him for a pants-wetting accident? To the child, Grandma is no longer the same person she was just a moment before; she has become an ogre’

Bettelheim, Bruno. (1976)The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, Thames and Hudson, Page 66