After reading the articles my thesis would be depending on how gruesome the fairy tale is I will determine if I will read the tale to a child. Especially from my perspective being a mother I would never want to read my child a book about sex or children being slaughtered. “Fairy tales give conscious expression to complex unconscious, infantile fantasies about sexual wishes, anger, guilt and fear of punishment within the family” (Isaacs). Nevertheless, some of the Grimm brothers’stories have life lessons within them which I feel like they can be good for children depending on their age. For instance, the Snow White story by the Grimm brothers basically explained a scenario of “The boy who cried wolf” because she never learned a lesson until it was too late even after the dwarfs told her not open the door anymore. I have to do a more thorough research on the articles in list B, being transparent none of the options in List B caught my attention and some of the websites they popped up on didnt give me access to the full article.
Works Cited:
“Sex and Violence in Fairy Tales” editorial by David Isaacs, Journal of Paediatrics and Child
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Tondi, I appreciate everything you write here, but for this final essay I want everyone to take a firm opinion. You don’t even have to totally believe your opinion; you just have to argue for it. In the rebuttal section, you can mention some opinions from the other side.