Week 09

Illustration of Cinderella tending to stepsisters preparing for ball.
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Activity 1

Click here for Aschenputtel, a variation of the Cinderella story by the Brothers Grimm.

Click here for Bettleheim’s discussion of “Cinderella.”

Click here for Cinderella by Charles Perrault.

Click here for an analysis of “Cinderella” by psychologist Bruno Bettleheim.

Activity 2 (optional)

Click here for the story of Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm.

Rapunzel letting her long, red braid down from a tower
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Activity 3

Click here for a podcast reading. and discussion by several psychologists about “Hansel and Gretel” from their professional viewpoint.

Activity 4

Click here for the text “Hansel and Gretel” by the Brothers Grimm. This translation will differ from the one in the podcast

Old-fashioned print of an illuminated Hansel in woods behind his parents and sister.
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Activity 5

Click here to read Bruno Bettleheim’s analysis of “Hansel and Gretel” from his book, The Uses of Enchantment.  Scroll down to page 159.