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INTRODUCTION TO REAL WORLD There is evil and virtue, good and bad in everything Difficulties in life are unavoidable, see hero confront evil, and through cleverness or bravery, find a way to triumph See socially acceptable behaviors before they are old enough to grasp moral issues involved
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FAIRY TALES & NURSERY RHYMES
Agents of socialization
FUNCTION OF FAIRY TALES
Agent of socialization
Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning & Importance of Fairy Tales
Help children master the problems of growing up, stimulate imaginations to help deal with fears
INTRODUCTION TO REAL WORLD
There is evil and virtue, good and bad in everything
Difficulties in life are unavoidable, see hero confront evil, and through cleverness or bravery, find a way to triumph
See socially acceptable behaviors before they are old enough to grasp moral issues involved
RING-A-ROUND THE ROSIE
Common American versions include:
Ring-a-round a rosie,A pocket full of posies,Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down.
Common British versions include:
Ring-a-ring o' roses,A pocket full of posies,A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down.
Jack & Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water…
Louis and Marie Antoinette
The little old lady who lived in a shoe, She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do….
She gave them some broth, without any bread; Then whipped them all soundly, and put them to bed.
Mary, Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.
Bloody Mary, actual graveyard, silver bells and cockle shells=torture devices, pretty maids-original guillotine
STRUCTURE & CONTENT
Simplified view of world for child.
Fundamental issues presented in either/or format
Witch is bad and ugly.
Princess kind and beautiful.
Prince is brave and strong.
Love, fear, death, isolation and abandonment themes
Confront fears can’t yet verbalize
Cinderella: parent death, step-mother, sibling rivalry
Disney v. Grimm brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODd9_0qqnQo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwbjet0zkLI
ANALYZING CINDERELLA
Mastering problems: wished for a different life
Introduction to real world: death, problems of wealthy
Stimulating imagination: fairy godmother puts magic spell
Dealing with fears: parent death, step parent mean, siblings
Either/or format: nice and beautiful, sisters mean and ugly
Themes: hopeful in face of adversity
Possible new meaning: commoner marries Prince, Kate Middleton, step sisters as negative voices within
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