ENG 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Flickr, Red Riding, Warwick Goble
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Whether (cid:455)ou"re tr(cid:455)i(cid:374)g to tea(cid:272)h (cid:455)our kids ways to be more respectful, common life lessons, or honesty, (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to (cid:449)ear (cid:455)ourself out a(cid:374)d (cid:271)e peda(cid:374)ti(cid:272). Fair(cid:455)tales should(cid:374)"t just (cid:271)e see(cid:374) as a source of silly relief from the day-to-day. The ultimate goal of a fairytale is to communicate a moral to its child audience. Fairytales make it simpler for children to internalize different morals by igniting their curiosity and keeping them invested in the story from the start. To quote bruno bettelheim, an austrian-born american author and psychoanalyst, fairytales give a child a moral edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374), (cid:862)(cid:449)hi(cid:272)h su(cid:271)tl(cid:455), a(cid:374)d (cid:271)(cid:455) i(cid:373)pli(cid:272)atio(cid:374) o(cid:374)l(cid:455), (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:455)s to. Here are just a couple examples of morals your children can internalize from different fairytales. In cinderella, by charles perrault, a young girl is made to suffer by her evil step-family, forced to do unfair chores and neglected by her father.
