Write a 5 Paragraph Essay of 500 words on the following topic. You may use secondary sources in researching your essay, but be sure to cite them properly. Your essay will be graded out of 100, and is worth 20% of your final grade in EN201OC.
All three fairy tales we have studied so far include a male “beast” figure: the wolf in “Little Red Cap,” the wildman in “Iron Hans,” and Beast in “Beauty and the Beast.” Consider how “the beasts”
in these stories suggest certain ideas about human sexuality and sexual awareness. How do these ideas differ with respect to the age and/or gender of each child protagonist? What does the “beast motif” convey about gender and sexual awareness across all three stories?