{"id":9646,"date":"2022-11-24T18:51:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T23:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2022-11-24T18:51:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T23:51:32","slug":"tamar-abelson-discussion-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/2022\/11\/24\/tamar-abelson-discussion-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamar Abelson Discussion 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">analysis<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of \u201cSnow White,\u201d Bruno Bettleheim refers to the hunter as the father character in the story. He writes that \u201ca male who can be viewed as an unconscious representation of the father appears\u2014the hunter who is ordered to kill Snow White, but instead saves her life\u201d. The hunter obeys the queen\u2019s order and takes snow white to the woods to kill her. He decided not to do that and let her go but didn\u2019t try to save her (he thought that if he&#8217;s not going to kill her, she would probably get eaten by a wild animal in the woods). According to Bettleheim\u2019s interpretation, the hunter comes out as a weak character, or as he claims a weak father figure. He\u2019s not trying to save the kid from death in the woods, and also bringing back a dead animal\u2019s lungs and liver instead, so the queen would think he killed snow white. This observation reminds me of the story from last week\u2019s reading \u201cWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\u201d by Joyce Carol Oates. In both stories, the father captures as weak, and as he \u201cfails to take a strong and definite stand\u201d character, while the wife has the power and is more present in the story, and the child\u2019s life. Also, both stories put a strong emphasis on beauty and it has a connection to the mother\u2019s love. Bettleheim states that kids who don&#8217;t have strong, protective parents have to find a way to manage on their own in life, unfortunately, in the story \u201cWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\u201d Connie, the child couldn\u2019t save herself. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the analysis of \u201cSnow White,\u201d Bruno Bettleheim refers to the hunter as the father character in the story. He writes that \u201ca male who can be viewed as an unconscious representation of the father appears\u2014the hunter who is ordered to kill Snow White, but instead saves her life\u201d. The hunter obeys the queen\u2019s order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-14-discussion","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9647,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions\/9647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}