Introduction

Despite how far we've come socially and politically women are still not 'out of the woods' - the 'woods' being the pressures and constrictions that 'beauty' controls women in society, sometimes without us even realising it. For this project I have selected the well-known tale of Little Red Riding Hood - specifically the Grimm Brothers version, Little Red Cap - and using it to portray my theme of the control the ideaology of beauty can have over women and how we can find ourselves entwined in it. My project will contain a parallel between woman and child. The Wolf represents the manipulative nature of the mass media, specifically the beauty industries which 'preys' upon women at a very young age. However, as I got deeper into this project, I also thought of how we ourselves, in our own minds, inhabit a predator. A woman's physical insecurities are caused by how we think in our own minds due to socialisation. A young girl is walking through the woods and is watched, followed and confronted by the wolf. Her naivity results in her inevitable consumption. Regarding his false behaviour, he is a 'wolf in sheep's clothing' who is mistakenly trusted.