The tale makes the clearest contrast between the safe world of the village and the dangers of the forest, conventional antitheses that are essentially medieval, though no written versions are as old as that.
"Little Red Riding Hood" illustration by Arthur Rackham. Sanitized versions of the story have the grandmother locked in the closet instead of being eaten and some have Little Red Riding Hood saved by the lumberjack as the wolf advances on her rather than after she is eaten, where the woodcutter kills the wolf with his axe. In Grimm's version, the wolf leaves the house and tries to drink out of a well, but the stones in his stomach cause him to fall in and drown. The wolf awakens and attempts to flee, but the stones cause him to collapse and die. Then they fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge shaken, but unharmed. However, in later versions, the story continues generally as follows:Ī woodcutter in the French version, but a hunter in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, comes to the rescue with an axe, and cuts open the sleeping wolf. In Charles Perrault's version of the story (the first version to be published), the tale ends here. Little Red then says, "What a deep voice you have!" ("The better to greet you with", responds the wolf), "Goodness, what big eyes you have!" ("The better to see you with", responds the wolf), "And what big hands you have!" ("The better to embrace you with", responds the wolf), and lastly, "What a big mouth you have" ("The better to eat you with!", responds the wolf), at which point the wolf jumps out of the bed and eats her, too. When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange. Gustave Doré's engraving of the scene: "She was astonished to see how her grandmother looked."
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