PrepTest 115 - Section 3 - Passage 2 - Question 13

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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.

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Critique or debate

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Principle or generalization

This is an Implied Principle question. We are looking for a principle that underlies the perspective of the author regarding literary interpretation. The author discusses literary interpretation throughout the text, but much of this discussion about interpretation is found in P3. We know that the author sees two ways of interpreting a story, and that interpretations can depend on cultural assumptions and expectations. We are looking for an answer that generalizes one of these ideas.

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Unsupported. The author does not mention people who are trained in literary interpretation, and the author does not suggest that only certain people are qualified to detect latent meanings in stories.

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Unsupported. The author does not suggest that only certain people are mature enough to detect latent meanings in stories.

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Unsupported. The author doesn’t talk about what makes a “correct” literary interpretation. Additionally, the author doesn’t restrict the amount of “correct” interpretations that a story may have.

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This is supported at the end of P3, where the author says that readers with different assumptions and expectations came to interpretations that were very different from Bettelheim’s interpretations. This shows that the author agrees that interpretations are influenced by the assumptions and expectations that one brings to a story.

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Unsupported. The passage never discusses authorial intent, so this can’t be the underlying principle for the author’s perspective.

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