ENG 371 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sigmund Freud, Tabula Rasa, Oedipus Complex
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Quiz 1: didactic - with the intention to teach, bettelheim wouldn"t approve of arlene sardine as a children"s book because. Arlene (protagonist who a child is most likely to identify with) dies. Issues between the child and one parent (snow white w/ her stepmother: tabula rasa - blank slate or the idea that children are completely molded by parent and resents their same-sex parent for getting to be with them. Fairy tales are true because their events can be translated/related to events the child experiences: a bad/evil character gives children an opportunity to project their anxieties onto the character. Quiz 2: folk fairy tales provide children with resolution and consolation, goldilocks and the three bears is not satisfying as a fairy tale because there is no clear resolution. F. (see answer to section i. subsection h. ) In the nightingale by hc andersen, the emperor makes a mistake when he decides to value the mechanical/artificial bird over the real one.
