Adult Perspective
towards the Stories of The Little Prince and
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The Little Red Riding Hood
which is written by Charles Perrault and Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s The Little
Prince are the stories about adulthood and its complexity. The similarity of
both stories is in the broad theme of life phases to reach maturity. It is linked by the phase of adolescence (which is
the underlying phase in The Little Red Riding Hood) to the phase of adulthood
which underlies the story of The Little Prince. The different complexity of
each phase will be the contrast issue between those stories.
Keywords: Maturity, Menarche, Sexuality, Sexual Abuse,
Rape, Virginity, Adulthood, Marriage, Divorce.
The Little Red Riding Hood and The Little Prince have another untold story
which shows the differences and similarities of adult perspective which lead
the readers to the stories about the complexity of adulthood and the phases to
reach maturity. Being adult is not only about being physically and
psychologically mature, growing up, and having a happy marriage life, but it is
about being mature in viewing life and the complexity of every side of life.
Indeed, it is not easy to be mature in viewing life, because maturity is not
only being mature by nature. Problems, obstacles, and happiness exclusively
involve the phases of every human being to be mature, which will be the
complexity of adulthood. It is important for every human being to be aware with
those kinds of things in order to be wise in viewing life. The short story of
The Little Red Riding Hood and the novella of The Little Prince cannot be read
only as children stories. There are so many gems, uniqueness, and the relations
to our real life experiences. They show us the different perspective in reading
those stories. They have hidden life values which stated implicitly about the
exposure of the complexity of adulthood. It is good for the readers to know and
dig deeper into it.
The story of The Little Red Riding Hood which was written by Charles
Perrault, and another well-known version by The Brother Grimm, The Red Cap,
tells about the little girl who was swallowed up by the wicked wolf because she
spoke to the wolf about her journey to her sick grandmother’s house in the deep
dark wood. It seems that the story is very simple and general. In fact, the
story is not a general one which takes much time for readers to dig deeper the
hidden values of the untold story of The Little Red Riding Hood. The story
implicitly has adulthood content, and it is a little horrible for us due to the
fact that most people will probably think that it is suitable for children, and
parents usually read this horrible story as bedtime stories while lulling children
to sleeps. The adulthood content is about the journey of every human being to
reach maturity. In this case, it is about the phases of a little girl to reach
sexual maturity by experiencing the physical and psychological change.
However, the well-known novella which was written by Antoine De-Saint
Exupéry, The Little Prince, which is believed as reach in symbolisms, pearls,
moral values, and hidden story which correlates to the real life experience,
even correlates to the author’s love life.
Digging adult
perspective is not a piece of cake. Therefore, in order to get valid data and
scientific information, the method was not only done by reading some reference
books, but also by making the questionnaires. The questionnaires were delivered
to ten respondents who were the students of English Language Education Study
Program of Sanata Dharma University whose ages were about 19 to 21. The
respondents who were asked to fill in the questionnaires were the ones who had
read the novel of The Little Prince and any version of short story of The
Little Red Riding Hood. They were asked to think about the statements in the
questionnaires which were related to those stories, and had to put a tick mark (√)
on every provided columns of agree or disagree. There were eight statements
which needed to be writing down the further explanation, which were signed by
the asterisks (*) on the table below. Therefore, the questionnaires were a
combination of closed and open-ended question type.
The
questionnaires were divided into three parts: the general statements, the
Little Prince items, and The Little Red Riding Hood items. The division was
meant for the sake of the ease of looking for information which was related to
each story. The general statements were all about the general comments and the
combination of information on those two stories. The general statements became
the introduction to the main statements of every story. The Little Prince items
were about all statements and questions which were related to the untold story
of the novel. And then, The Little Red Riding Hood items were about all
statements and questions which were related to the untold story of The Little
Red Riding Hood and also the versions.
Here is the
table of the questionnaire result which shows the total respondents who agree or
disagree with the provided statement in each item, which can be the comparison
of when looking for the data and supplementary information. In order to look
for the information, the blank questionnaire had been attached to the appendix.
No.
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Agree
Respondents
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Disagree
Respondents
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No.
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Agree
Respondents
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Disagree
Respondents
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1.
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8
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2
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14.*
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9
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1
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2.
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10
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0
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The
Little Red Riding Hood items
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3.
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6
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4
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15.
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10
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0
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4.*
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7
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3
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16.
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7
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3
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5.
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10
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0
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17.
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10
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0
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The
Little Prince items
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18.
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9
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1
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6.
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8
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2
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19.*
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7
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3
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7.
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9
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1
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20.*
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4
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6
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8.
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7
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3
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21.
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5
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5
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9.
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10
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0
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22.
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7
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3
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10.
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2
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8
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23.
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10
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0
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11.*
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10
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0
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24.*
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10
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0
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12.
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7
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3
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25.*
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6
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4
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13.*
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9
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1
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From the result of the
questionnaire, it can be concluded that both The Little Prince and The Little
Red Riding Hood are the interesting stories to read due to its richness of
moral value, word gems, symbolisms, nice plot, and strong characterization. All
respondents did not object that those stories had the untold story which was
directed the readers into an adult perspective and the phases of every human
being in life with the complexity, so that the stories could not only be viewed
as children stories.
Even though many
of them had not read about the correlation of the story of The Little Prince to
the real life experience, they believed that the relationship of the little
prince and the rose could be interpreted as married couple in reality. In fact,
the authors made the novella because he was inspired by his own experiences,
which one of them was the relationship with his wife, Consuelo. In addition,
one of the respondent made this story correlation became stronger by saying
agree that he had read the untold story about the author’s marriage life which became
the untold story behind the creation of Exupéry’s masterpiece.
The relationship
of the little prince and his rose was also believed as the one which could not
been separated from the conflicts. In the book, the rose was regarded as the
dishonest one, who always said that she was the only beautiful rose in the
universe. The respondents felt that the rose was not only spoiled, but also
tricky. The rose was also regarded as the one who could not understand that the
prince loved her so much. Seemed that this relationship was not good, so was
the relationship of the author and his wife in reality which ended up in
divorce because of the dishonest and disbelief.
Talking about
the relationship of the rose and the little prince, the story indeed cannot be
separated from marriage life and its complexity. Honesty became the main issue
in the marriage life. The respondents made many comments on this issue, but the
gist was only about keeping the marriage life. The sacred marriage life could slowly
loosen its tight bond if the couple hid many lie and sin by telling the fake things
for the sake of covering the mistake. When somebody was decided to live
together in a marriage bond, the couple had to be responsible and trust to each
other. It was also agreed if the conflicts which came to the married couple
continuously, the divorce could be the ending of the marriage life.
The sexual
interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood was slippery to do, and it was reflective
because the statements which underlay this story were based on the respondents’
principle and knowledge. The culture of every respondent also played the
important role when answering the questions which was related to sexuality and
virginity. Most of the respondents found that it was such a taboo to talk about
sexuality. The same thing happened when the respondents were asked to imagine
about the age of the little girl in the story if she were a human being. A few
number of pro respondents agreed that the girl was at the age of teenager who had
recently menstruated, so that she should have exposed and taught about sex
education. Sexuality and things which have the tendency to sexuality were not a
taboo anymore. But the contra people would say that the girl was only an
innocent girl, though she might had her menarche (or the first menstruation
period), she should not have had the exposure of sexuality.
The shocking
fact was that every respondents agreed that keeping virginity was the most
crucial thing for girls’ or women’s life, because it was believed that many
people would appreciate the women who are still virgin up until they are in a
marriage life, and men usually look for women who are still virgin as their
wives. Virginity was regarded as the most precious God’s gift, the crown, and
the pride of every woman has. Therefore, keeping virginity equals to keeping
women’s pride. There are many reasons why women should not lose their virginity
up until they are married to somebody. The respondents gave the various reasons:
religion views on keeping virginity, health reason, and psychological reason.
The closest conclusion
for the fact is probably because most of the respondents were female, so that
it was a sensitive topic if it is related to their sex. The moment when the
wicked wolf swallowed up the little girl was also viewed as the sensitive
thing. They said that the moment did not only tell about the rape of a girl,
but also any deception which was done by men. The wicked wolf was portrayed as
the wicked men or any bad guys in the world.
Even though the
stories of The Little Prince and The Little Red Riding Hood were slightly
different in viewing adult perspective, but they are under the same umbrella of
the broad theme of life phases to reach maturity. Actually, The Little Red
Riding Hood talks about the phase of adolescence to reach the phase of early
adulthood, while The Little Prince is about the phase of adulthood. Therefore,
both stories are inter-connected to each other because each story is linked by
the phases which direct to the same final phase: adulthood.
Adulthood is not
only about being older by age, or just growing up, but it is about being mature
in viewing the complexity of every side of this life. As strengthen by
Whitbourne and Weinstock (1979) who tried to give the concept of adulthood,
they considered adulthood as reaching a state of maturity. They also gave
further explanation about maturity as follows:
Maturity
is viewed as being happy to act responsibly, accept one’s own social role,
think logically, be emotionally aware, and cope reasonably well with life’s
smaller frustration.
It seems that maturity becomes so
important in adulthood life, so that Turner and Helms (1989) tried to develop
the view about maturity further.
The mature/adult
state promotes physical and psychological well-being by the person having
sorted out their values, achieved the realistic-self concept, being stable
emotionally and in relationships, and so on.
Simplified from
the book entitled Adolescence (2005) by John W. Santrock, there are many
developmental phases or stages in human’s life, beginning from infancy,
childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
As mentioned in
the previous explanation, The Little Red Riding Hood is looked as the story
which tells about the phase of adolescence. However, the definition of
adolescence is given by Evie Bentley in her book, Adulthood (2007), as the
intermediate stage starting from around the time of puberty (at the ages of
10-15), which is a link from the childhood to the adulthood phase. Therefore,
to reach adulthood phase, every human being must have passed the adolescence
phase first.
The reasons why
this story can be classified in a phase of adolescence are because of plot development,
strong characterization, and great symbolisms. In the story plot, the little
red riding hood which was known as the little girl was asked by her mother to
visit her grandmother’s house in the wood. The girl’s journey into the deep
dark wood can be assumed as the phase of adolescence to reach adulthood phase.
In the middle of the story, the girl who met with a wolf could be interpreted
as the complexity and problems in reality.
The
characterization gives the readers about the view of who the characters in the
story really are, and also their behavior. The little girl who was regarded as
innocent, kind-hearted, and curious is not that innocent if it is interpreted
through adult perspective. This little girl who was at the stage of
adolescence, looked like an early-blooming flower in the middle of the desert,
which makes everybody tempted to pick her. But the wicked wolf could be
interpreted as the wicked man who was tempted by the beauty of the little girl.
However, in the
symbolisms, the red hood which was worn by the little girl can be symbolized as
the menarche or the menstruation period. Menarche is the first menstruation
which faced by every young girl (Adolescence, 2005). The menarche can be a sign
for girls that they are in the phase of puberty, and it is normal for them
because they are not little girls anymore, but the ones who are ready to be
initiated in the more complex life. This is a little bit contradicted to the
respondents’ assumption—which has been discussed above—about the exposure of
sexuality to the girls. Actually, the little red riding hood can be portrayed
as the girl who had got the menarche and the one who were ready to pass the more
complex phase as a teenager. Indeed, if the girl has menstruated, there will be
a budding sexuality because of the hormonal change and also biological and
psychological change in her body.
These are the reasons why The
Little Red Riding Hood mostly talks under the broad theme of adolescence phase.
Because of the adolescence phase cannot be separated from every human’s life
journey, this phase becomes the link to The Little Prince story which mostly
talks about the phase of adulthood.
The phase of
adulthood is the final phase to pass by every human being after passing the
phase of adolescence. In The Little Prince, the adulthood phase was shown by the
content of the story. It told about the typical characteristics of adults,
which are different from children. The adulthood phase came up in the moment of
the narrator did not listen to the demand of the little prince to draw the
sheep which fitted with the little prince’s imagination. Because of the
narrator was busy in thinking about his broken aeroplane, he refused to draw
the sheep because he was busy about the matter of consequence. And then, the
adulthood phase also came up in the moment of the Turkish astronomer who
discovered the asteroid B-612 tried to demonstrate his discovery to the
International Astronomical Congress, but the demonstration refused because the
astronomer was not in a costume like usual European scientists. The statements
came up in the story that the grown-ups (or adults) are all like that, and
grown-ups love figures. They are unimaginative, dull, and superficial in
viewing world.
From
those statements, it can be concluded that the adulthood phase makes the
difference on the adolescence and childhood phases. It happens because the
adults’ way of thinking is shaped
by the environment and experiences which they have passed along with age
(Adulthood, 2007). The changes in adulthood phase are linked to the adolescence
phase as the effect of it. Once more, that is why the story of The Little
Prince and The Little Red Riding Hood are similar in the broad theme of adulthood
perspective.
Contradicted
to the similarity of the adulthood theme, those stories have different complexity
which becomes the problems of reaching maturity in viewing life. The Little Red
Riding Hood which tells about the adolescence phase of the little girl to reach
maturity has different adulthood complexity. They are about sexual maturity,
sexual abuse, and the importance of keeping virginity. However, The Little
Prince which is under the broad theme of adulthood phase will have different
complexity to The Little Red Riding Hood story. The complexity will be mostly
about relationship of a woman and a man, marriage, and divorce.
As
explained before, The Little Red Riding Hood was believed as the story which could
not be read simply as children bedtime stories. Instead, this short story talks
about how a little girl could reach sexual maturity by experiencing physical
and psychological change in her body. In the book of Successful Marriage
(1947), the physical change in teenage girls in the phase of puberty includes
the phase rapid of the physical growth (the growth of weight and the height),
and sexual maturity which is indicated as the menarche, the formation of body
shape, and a marked increase in the size and a change in the configuration of the
breast, and the prominent body hair which appears in the pubic region, in the
side of external genitalia, and under the arms.
According to the
Santrock’s Adulthood (2005), it is concluded that the psychological change
involves the self image, the standard of ideal self, and also physical
attractiveness. Teenagers (especially girls) do worry about their body and
sometimes looked standing in front of the mirror just to observe their bodies.
They also care about physical attractiveness which becomes really important in
the phase of adolescence. Teenagers will become very strict in determining the
standard of ideal self which sometimes contradict to their real self. They
perhaps think that a fat, short, and pimpled person is not attractive
physically. That becomes the reason why they looked unsatisfied with their
bodies.
Successful
Marriage (1947) gave the further details of psychological change in teenagers.
It involves the boredom, disinclination to work, general restlessness and
irritability, moodiness, critical attitude, quarrelsome, the tendency to be
easily offensive, sulkiness, lack of self-confidence, excessive daydreaming,
interesting in religion and sex, and rebellious attitude.
From
the biological and psychological change in the adolescence phase, it is normal
for teenage girls to have such increasing womanhood hormones which make them
are budding in sexuality. The little girl from The Little Red Riding Hood who
was interpreted as a teenage girl in reality did so, because she is in the
journey to be mature in sexuality. Therefore, in order to reach the phase of
adulthood, there should be an allowance for sex education and also the exposure
of the things related to sexuality, because one of the most important elements
of adult relationship is sexuality (Adult Development and Aging, 2003).
Another
complexity of adolescence phase which is found in the untold story of The
Little Red Riding Hood is sexual abuse. Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary
defines the term of abuse as wrong or excessive use of something, and as an
unfair or illegal practice. Sexual abuse can be concluded as a cruel sexual treatment
to somebody which is done illegally, and usually involves the violence, for
example is raping. The Little Red Riding Hood is a well-known and prominent
story about raping. The moment of the wicked wolf was swallowing the little
girl is believed as the moment of the rape which is done by bad guy. As everybody
knows, the bad guy is portrayed best as the wicked wolf.
The
correlation of the symbolism of the red hood as the menstrual blood and the
moment of the swallowing up the girl, makes another complexity in the phase of
adolescence. The menstruation signifies that the girl is ready to the sexual
awakening. In this short story, the girl lost her virginity because lack of
alertness. She was entering the deep dark wood and started a journey, and then she
unfortunately encountered the wicked wolf which directed her budding sexuality
to the sex reality where it is interpreted as the man took her virginity by
raping. It is not necessary to mention virginity as the other complexity of the
hidden side of The Little Red Riding Hood story.
At
the end of this sexual interpretation, virginity matters most. In the result of
the observation, it is also viewed as the most valuable and important thing for
every woman. Nobody could find themselves agreed with the experience of losing
virginity. They even did not let themselves throw in deep thought about losing
virginity because of unplanned accident, such as raping, which had been
mentioned many times. Everybody agreed to keep their virginity in many ways to
protect their pride and their self-esteem. The importance of virginity is built
by environments which support people to appreciate women who can keep virginity
until they are married to somebody. Many people even do not tolerate to the one
who lost her virginity. Still, virginity matters most since there is an attempt
to keep it because of many reasons: religious views which forbid the losing
virginity because of having sexual intercourse before having married, as in Islam
perspective for example. After that, there is also health reason which views
that keeping virginity will avoid women from venereal diseases or sexually
transmitted-diseases (STDs), such as gonorrhea, AIDS, syphilis, Chlamydia, and genitalia
herpes (Adolescence, 2005). The last one comes from psychological reason which
state when a woman is not virgin, people tend to have many negative speculation
about her, such as bad girl or even as a working girl.
Unlike
the interpretation of The Little Red Riding Hood which is mostly about
sexuality and its problems, The Little Prince which was already under the
adulthood phase will have different complexity which was related to its phase. The
relationship of a woman and a man, marriage, and divorce cannot be separated
from this novella.
Once
when the tiny sprouts came up from the tiny seed in the tiny planet of the
little prince was the moment for him to find out whether the sprout was a
different sprout from the baobab’s which he hated the most. But then, the
sprout began to show the beauty as a rose flower, beginning from one ring of
petals. This could initiate the interpretation about how the love came in every
man and woman. The tiny sprout of sympathy will grow up day by day at the
beginning of the early attraction. And then, the sympathy sprout will grow up
as the beauty rose of love and deep attachment between two different sexes of
people. In order to look deeper to the beloved person, men and women have to do
an approach, they will probably go for dating, or even just be satisfied in a relationship
as intimate friends. But then, that is how which is called as the relationship
of men and women happens.
When
the men and women feel that their relationship is worth to bring in the next stage
which is more officially tighten, then they will probably decide to live
together as wife and husband couple in a sacred marriage bond. Indeed, marriage
is not only about the unity of the initially unofficial relationship of a man
and a woman into more official relationship in the eyes of laws and religion.
But it is also about the mature thought about many things which are tended as
pre-marital preparation. Henry A. Bowman in Successful Marriage (1947) gives
the further explanation as follows:
Marriage was
formerly an association between two people—in which the economic, reproductive,
protective, and societal aspects were most important—with the personal
relationship between husband and wife also important secondary.
The relationship of the little
prince and his own rose is known and believed as the marriage relationship of
the author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and his Salvadoran wife, Consuelo de
Saint-Exupéry. The author loved his wife so much, though she had many
weaknesses. Once when the little prince saw the beautiful rose flower in his
planet, he started to feel that he would do anything to protect his beloved flower
by placing her under the shelter of the glass globe to avoid from winds, giving
her the water to avoid from the draughts, and protecting her from the sheep and
tiger which would try to eat her.
In a marriage life, love tends to
produce the feeling of oneness on the part of the couple which they tend to
feel identified with each other. Love also tends to give the person who is in
love a sense of security and trust. This last word seems have to be questioning
in the relationship of the little prince and the rose, which is also about the relationship
of Exupéry and Consuelo. Exupéry’s marriage was known as rough. Some references
said that Exupéry’s infidelity and doubts to his wife made the marriage failed.
But if take a look at the story, the rose was believed as the one who admire
herself, and did not know that the prince loved her so much. She told the
prince that she was the only rose in the universe, but then the prince found
himself disappointed because he found many roses like his own in the planet
earth. This disappointment made the little prince did not trust and believe in
the rose anymore. The rose had tell a lie, which meant that she was not honest
to the prince.
Dishonesty can endanger the marriage
which brings to disappointment, mistrust, and even divorce. The relationship of
the little prince and the rose, and also the relationship of Exupéry and
Consuelo did not last longer. The little prince left the rose into the journey
to many weird planets, and Exupéry’s marriage ended in divorce.
Actually many things become the
reason behind the divorce, including the missing of commitment and trust, as
Golan tried to say:
the partner
initiating the divorce as may view it as an escape from an untenable
relationship; the divorced partner, however, usually feels betrayal, sadness
over the end of a long-standing relationship, and emotional grief over the loss
of trust and commitment.
Even
though, the emotional commitment to a long-term marriage sometimes is not
easily to cast aside (Adult Development and Aging, 2003). But if—as explained
in the previous part—the dishonesty, mistrust, and disbelief happen
continuously in the life of married couples, the marriages will lessen and
loosen the sacred bond which tightens the couples to remain to be together.
Therefore, divorce and all negative
views on couple such as disbelief and dishonesty are of course a part of the
complexity of being mature in adulthood. People will get wiser if they have
encounters the complexity of life, including the marriage problems.
The Little Prince and The Little Red
Riding Hood are all about making people mature in viewing life and its
complexity through the interpretation of the untold stories. Both The Little
Red Ridinghood and The Little Prince has the similarity in broad theme of life
phases to reach maturity. What makes the difference is the complexity of each phase. The Little Red
Riding Hood which was under the phase of adolescence makes the complexity involving the journey of an
adolescent girl to reach sexual maturity, the rape, and the important of
keeping virginity. While, The Little Prince which was already in the phase of
adulthood has the complexity of the relationship of women and men which is
divorce and divorce. As a conclusion, even
though those stories are different in the complexity as the effect of the
phases, but both stories are talking about the adult perspective in viewing
general life and how the complexity directs to life maturity.
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Bentley, Evie.(2007).Adulthood.New York: Routledge
Fishbein,
Morris & Ernest W. Burgess.(1947).Successful
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Hoyer,
William J. & Paul A. Roodin.(2003).Adult
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Santrock,
John W.(2005).Adolescence (tenth edition).New
York: McGraw Hill
Scabini,
Eugenia et al.(2007).The Transition to
Adulthood: An Intergenerational Perspective.New York: Psychology Press
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You
have to put a tick (√) on the box provided if you agree or disagree with the
statements.
Some
statements are also provided with the blank spaces for you to write and explain
further about the statements.
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The Little
Prince is an interesting novella to read
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2.
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The Little Red
Riding Hood is an interesting short story to read
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3.
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I have read
about “another” story behind The Little Prince and The Little Red Riding Hood
which talks about the symbolisms, moral values, gems of the diction, etc.
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From
what source did you read the “another” story?
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4.
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I can find the
correlation between The Little Prince and The Little Red Riding Hood stories
in finding the hidden values.
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What
is that, do you think?
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5.
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I think the
story of The Little Red Riding Hood and The Little Prince cannot be viewed
only as children story. I also can find the correlation with adulthood or
adult perspective in life.
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THE
LITTLE PRINCE
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6.
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There is an
adulthood story behind this story, and it is about marriage.
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7.
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I think the
relationship of the rose and the little prince is like a couple of husband
and wife in reality.
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8.
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The
rose: I
think the rose is spoiled.
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9.
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I think the
rose is tricky.
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10.
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I feel so
sorry to the rose.
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11.
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The prince
loved the rose so much and took care of it.
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So
what do you think was happening between the rose and the prince?
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12.
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Think
about the moment where the rose said that she was the only rose in the
universe, and the little prince started to believe her.
But
in his journey to earth, the prince found so many roses like his own.
I think the
prince were angry and disappointed because his rose was lying.
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13.
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If
the moment mentioned above is translated into real life experience, I
think the dishonesty can makes the relationship failed.
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Why
is so?
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14.
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Some problems
can endanger the marriage life; it can cause divorce for example.
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Can
you relate the story between the rose and the little prince with marriage
life and its complexity?
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THE
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
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15.
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The little red
riding hood (let us say the girl) was a curious, kind-hearted, and innocent.
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16.
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If the girl
were a human being, she would probably be a teenager.
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17.
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The wolf was
wicked and tricky.
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18.
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If the wolf
were a human being, it would probably be a mean guy or a wicked man.
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19.
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Think
about the moment when the wolf swallowed up the little girl.
I think it is
like a rape of a girl.
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Considering
that moment, IF you have any idea about the relationship with our real life
experience, please explain about it!
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20.
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I think if the
girl were a human being, she were
mature enough to have an exposure to the things related to sexuality.
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Why
is so?
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21.
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Think
about the journey of the girl to her grandmother’s house in the deep dark
wood.
In reality, it is like a journey of every human being to reach sexual
maturity.
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22.
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The red hood which was worn by the
girl symbolized a menarche (the girl’s first menstruation period).
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23.
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If the girl has gotten the menarche,
or even periodical menstruation, she would have had physical and
psychological change.
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24.
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It is important to keep virginity up
until the girls are married to somebody.
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If
it is important, please tell me the reason or state other supporting proof?
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25.
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This story mostly talks about the
phases to be the real adult by passing the phase of adolescence and its
complexity.
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If
you are pleased, please explain in brief!
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October 2013
Anita Yusticia Sari
111214080
~Thank you so much for your time and cooperation. Have a nice day!~
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