PrepTest 115 - Section 3 - Passage 2 - Question 12

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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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Author’s perspective

Implied

This is an Inference question from the author’s perspective. Recall that the author’s main point is the criticism of psychologists like Bettelheim who insist on interpreting fairy tales in a way that focuses on providing moral instruction for children.

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Unsupported. The author is opposed to Bettelheim’s insistence on reading for deeper meanings. Also, the author talks about adults reading for deeper meanings, but doesn’t address what happens when children do/don’t try to find any deeper meaning.

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Unsupported. The author is critical of adults insisting that fairy tales teach lessons to children, not of adults suggesting that children read fairy tales. How children discover fairy tales isn’t addressed in the passage, so we don’t know if the author would agree with this claim.

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Unsupported. The passage doesn’t discuss what happens when children recommend fairy tales to other children. Also, the author never expresses the belief that fairy tales lead children to behave better.

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Unsupported. The author is critical of Bettelheim’s perspective these deeper meanings should be the primary focus in interpretations of fairy tales; the author’s concern isn’t that children are too young to comprehend deeper meanings.

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This is supported in P4––the author thinks that fairy tales should be allowed to be an unproductive form of pleasure for children, rather than a source of unending moral instruction.

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