The observation in Bettleheim’s psychologically oriented reading I find insightful and relevant to “Littie Snow White” was “before a child can come to grips with reality, he must have some frame of reference to evaluate it” this is relevant because Snow White didn’t have that frame of reference to evaluate before coming to grips with reality which made her have a lack of sense of danger. This led to snow white continously falling for her stepmother traps.
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Hello Daniel,
When I read Bettleheim’s psychologically oriented reading of the stories I saw it in a different way. I think what Bettleheim was trying to tell us is that these stories that as children we grew up with we did not fully understand unless we look at them from a different viewpoint than what we would have as children. He tells us that we need to view a fairytale in its original form to fully appreciate it.
Hey Daniel! I agree with what you’re saying. I don’t know if she didn’t understand danger entirely, but maybe the methods in which is could come. Since she didn’t seem to matter until she became a challenge of beauty to the queen, she didn’t need to understand the ways someone could deceive her. Her gullibility does show her lack of understanding reality however if you believe she was just lucky to fall upon dwarfs who in turn became little men she cared for by cooking their meals and tending to them as the lady of the house, it shows some survival skills. Just not one in terms of deception, which was shown only by the evil intentions of the queen alone.
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