In Bettleheim’s psychologically oriented reading of the story many parts come out to me as interesting. For example, in his analysis of the story he didn’t just view it from the children’s point of view but also different parents point of view. only from a single parent’s prospective but from many prospective. Bettleheim take from parents think negative of the story “Some parents fear that their children may get carried away by their fantasies” then reply to that view with carful research and he not only gave this one fear but many more like “parents fear that a child’s mind may become so overfed by fairy-tale fantasies as to neglect learning to cope with reality.” is another example that he gave these ideas gave very good contredition to the idea that he was getting at that the fairytale is not all bad for children. I personally agree with him because aren’don’t a lot of religious story take part away from fairtale as well?
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Hello Wyman! I enjoyed reading your discussion! It really stood out to me that you included different points of view. I find that very important in a writing piece because the audience and the readers are able to see how the character thinks and feels by looking at it through their eyes. I feel that the point of view would be different if it wasn’t only from a single parent, but a two-parent household and how it has an effect on raising children. Because at the end of the day, the parents want the best for their child, and when parents work together on that there may be some agreements and disagreements.
Hi Wyman, I agree with this, even though I have never met a parent that wasn’t happy about their children watching fairytales I can see why some parents do have a dislike for them. I always say fairytales depict real life, they are just exaggerated and discrete in the way they are shown off to children and that could ruin a child’s thought process on reality.
Hi Wyman,
I agree. I find your comments interesting looking back on the stories we’ve read I can see how Bettleheim’s psychological analysis fits into previous stories. One story, Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” how Connie was wrapped up in playing her fairytale personified version of herself while someone like Arnold Friend became infatuated with that version of herself as well as his own version of Connie, the one he wanted to form her into in his own fantasies. The neglect of Connie caused there to be no line between reality and fairytale and no caring adult (parental figure) to show her right from wrong.