LSAT PrepTest 115 - Section 3 - Passage 2 - Question 11

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Fairy tales address themselves to two communities, each with its own interests and each in periodic conflict with the other: parents and children. ███

Intro to Topic · Fairy tales

Seems like the relationship parents have to fairy tales are different from the one that children have... where is this going?

Study of Fairy Tales · Only viewed fairy tales through perspective of parent

Okay... so for example, in the "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" the moral of the story is that honesty is important. Don't lie. Or a wolf will eat you.

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Example · Bettelheim's view of "Hansel and Gretel"

According the Bettelheim, the "universally valid tenets of moral instruction for children" is the following: be independent; don't be greedy; materially contribute to your family; be mature.

"Superficial" v. "Deeper" Reading · Adults drawn to "deeper" reading

Okay, so is the author trying to say that this "deeper" reading is not actually deeper than the "superficial" reading? That's probably why they're both in quotations...

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Critique · Bettelheim's "deeper" reading is flawed

Author is critiquing Bettelheim's reading which casts children in a bad light because that's not actually a deeper reading. In fact, Bettelheim is just cherry picking fairy tales or rewriting them to fit his theory. In a different reading, there are no "tenets of moral instruction" in those fairy tales.

Critique · Bettelheim suppresses bad parental behavior and puts all blame on children

What a dick. Fortunately, this kind of reading has been discredited.

Explanation · of Bettelheim and other's flawed interpretation

Society wants to deny that adults are evil; hence posits children as evil; hence views fairy tales as instruments of moral instruction; hence denies that fairy tales can just be unproductive fun.

Passage Style

Critique or debate

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Question Type

Author’s attitude

Implied

This is an Inference question about the author’s attitude toward Bettelheim’s view of fairy tales. We see the author’s attitude toward Bettelheim largely in P3 and P4. The author is generally critical of Bettelheim’s view of fairy tales.

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Anti-supported. It is Bettelheim, not the author, who thinks that fairy tales should provide moral instruction. The author is critical of this view, so the author wouldn’t be concerned about something that undermines the ability of fairy tales to provide moral instruction.

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Unsupported. We don’t know whether the author disagrees that moral tenets can be universally valid. The author disagrees with Bettelheim’s belief that fairy tales exist to teach moral lessons; the author isn’t necessarily opposed to the claim that moral tenets exist.

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This is supported in P4. The author is opposed to Bettelheim’s characterizations of selfish children and innocent adults.

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Unsupported. Bettelheim doesn’t claim that children improve through punishment; he believes that they improve by hearing stories in which misbehaving children are punished. This is not an accurate description of Bettelheim’s view, and it is not an accurate description of what the author has a problem with.

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On the contrary, the author is skeptical of Bettelheim’s emphasis on alleged “deeper” content at the expense of manifest (easily apparent) content.

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