This
cartoon, that uses Little Red Riding Hood as a theme, is depicting a police
investigation. The police are asking the wolf who committed a crime. The wolf’s
response is what really makes up the satirical nature of this social cartoon.
The wolf describes the perpetrator was carrying a suspicious package and
wearing a hoodie. This description is pretty vague, but Little Red Riding Hood
is lying a few feet away, as if showing that she is taken as the perpetrator,
even though she is a little, innocent girl. She was evidently proven to be a
suspect based on a stereotypical, vague description. On a broad level, the
cartoon is depicting the tendency of judging that people are guilty based on a
loose description unless they are proven to be innocent. This tends to be a
social practice in modern day society, since the media often indicts suspects
with very little evidence against them.
I
personally find this social cartoon very clever. Although it does not require
much knowledge of the fairy tale, nor does it accurately depict the Grimm
version, the cartoon is very ironic and witty. I appreciate the use of the
protagonist in the fairy tale as the suspect and how justice has already seemed
to be served to her. She is a little girl in the common version of the tale,
and yet she was indicted without anything other than a questionable description
at best. The juxtaposition of the wolf as a reliable witness is also very
intelligent, as it shows the harsh nature of our modern day attitudes. We are
willing to believe that anyone is guilty based on very questionable evidence,
unless we have evidence that they are innocent. In the cartoon, a young,
innocent girl is punished based on vague evidence from a source with debatable
trustworthiness. I think that it is very intelligently done, as the cartoonist
has used a well-known fairy tale and switched the roles of the hero and antihero,
but in an effort to display the injustice of our society.
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