Themes and Imagery of fairytales

Carol Ann  Duffy - Collected Grimm Tales
Philip Pullman - Grimm Tales for Young and Old

Little Red Riding Hood - by Philip Pullman.
Imagery:

• A little girl who was so sweet and kind, that everyone loved her.
• A little cap made of red velvet.
• 3 big oak trees, and there's her house, behind a hedge of hazel bushes.
• Sun beams dancing
• Began to snip open the wolf's bulging belly.
• Oh Granny, what big ear's you've got!
• All the better to hear you with
Granny, what big eye's you've got!
All the better to see you with
And Granny, what big hands you've got!
All the better to hold you with
And oh, Granny what great big grim ghastly mouth you've got - 
All the better to eat you with.

Themes:

• Immaturity
• Naive
• Easily persuaded and influenced
• Trust
• Death

Little Red Cap - by Carol Ann Duffy

Imagery:Imagery:

• A delicious little girl
• 3 big oak trees, her house has hazel bushes near it
• Sun beams seeming to wink at her
• Little red cap
• Oh Granny, what big ear's you've got!
• All the better to hear you with
Granny, what big eye's you've got!
All the better to see you with
And Granny, what big hands you've got!
All the better to hold you with
And oh, Granny what great big grim ghastly mouth you've got - 
All the better to eat you with.

Themes:

• Whit
• Naive
• Death
• Trust

Cinderella - by Philip Pullman

Imagery:

• A rich man, whose wife became ill
• Good as gold and as meek as a lamb
• The snow lay like a white cloth over the grave
• Shabby grey dress and wooden shoes
• Hazel tree
• Two white doves
• Dress the colour of starlight
• Silken slippers
• Wiry hair
• Dress the colour of moonlight
• Dress the colour of sunlight
• Sisters best features - being shapely and well formed
• There's blood in the shoe
• Blood dripping from the slipper
• Much to dirty to be seen

Themes:

• Envy
• Jealousy
• Sacrifice - the sister cut their feet to fit into the shoe.
• Naive
• Love
• Death

Asputtle - by Carol Ann Duffy

Imagery:

• Dark time
• Snow put down a white shroud on the ground
• Hearts as ugly as thorns

Themes:

• Death