snow white
“Whether openly stated or only hinted at, oedipal difficulties and how the
individual solves them are central to the way his personality and human
relations fold. By camouflaging the oedipal predicaments, or by only subtly
intimating the entanglements, fairy stories permit us to draw our own
conclusions when the time is propitious for out gaining a better understanding
of these problems. Fairy stories teach by indirection.” (201)
This is an excerpt from Bruno Bettelheim’s “Snow …
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…alas, even this memory was marred when I read part of Bettelheim’s essay which
states, “Snow White’s story teaches that just because one has reached physical
maturity, one is by no means intellectually and emotionally ready for adulthood,
as represented by marriage.” Can’t a lovely princess just be awakened by a
magical kiss instead of having to get into all the gory details of physical
maturity, rites of adulthood, sex, and marriage?
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