English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Molly Whuppie, Red Riding, Brave Little Tailor
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Types of fairy tales: folk tales, literary tales, revisionist tales. Collectors: the grimm brothers (jacob and wilhelm grimm) First edition published 1812-1815: charles perrault 1697. Critics: bruno bettelheim: p. 328: it is not that the evildoer is punished at the story"s end which makes immersing oneself in fairy stories an experience in moral education . In fairy tales, as in life, punishment or fear of it is only a limited deterrent to crime. Ambiguities must wait until a relatively firm personality has been established on the basis of positive identifications. Then the child has a basis for understanding that there are great differences between people and that therefore one has to make choices about who one wants to be. Furthermore, a child"s choices are based, not so much on right versus wrong, as on who arouses his sympathy and who his antipathy.
