PrepTest 115 - Section 3 - Passage 2 - Question 10

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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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Other’s perspective

This is an Implied question from the perspective of Bettelheim about “Hansel and Gretel.” We see Bettelheim’s interpretation of “Hansel and Gretel” in P2.

We know that, in general, Bettelheim interprets fairy tales in a way that minimizes adults’ bad behavior. With this in mind, we should expect Bettelheim to de-emphasize anything pro-child or anti-parent.

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This would make Hansel and Gretel’s parents wrongdoers, which would be counter to Bettelheim’s pro-parent, anti-child interpretation. According to Bettelheim, instead of being about children abandoned by their parents, “Hansel and Gretel” is about children who give up their unhealthy dependency on their parents. Thus, we know that the “abandonment” element of the story is de-emphasized in Bettelheim’s interpretation.

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In Bettelheim’s view, the story about the witch imprisoning the children forces listeners to face the dangers of unrestrained greed, so Bettelheim’s interpretation would not de-emphasize this element.

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Bettelheim’s interpretation serves to train listeners to become “mature children,” so his interpretation probably wouldn’t de-emphasize the part of the story where children take matters into their own hands and overpower the witch.

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Instead, Bettelheim’s interpretation of the story highlights that the children took the witch’s jewels, because this allowed the children to support the family. This part of the story, according to Bettelheim, trains children to become mature.

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