In Bettelheim’s essay he discusses the benefits that fairy tales bring for children that read them. Bettelheim points out that “Many parents believe that only conscious reality or pleasant and wish-fulfilling images should be presented to the child - that he should be exposed to only the sunny side of things. But such one-sided fare nourishes the mind only in a one-sided way, and real life is not all sunny” (Bettelheim 1). Parents try to keep their children from knowing reality, so if it's written in a book it will inform the child safely. It provides as an example that they will use when they are older. In “Beauty and the Beast”, Beauty had a rich father, but they lost their fortune. They had to work, so “Beauty rose at four in the morning , and made haste to have the house clean, and dinner ready for the family” (Beaumont 1). She is becoming an adult because she is given these tasks to do. She is acting like a mother that cares for the family by providing them with a meal and cleaning the house. In “Rumpelstiltskin”, a miller tries to impress the king by telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The next day “the girl was brought to him” and “he took her into a room which was quite full of straw, gave her a
In Bettelheim’s essay he discusses the benefits that fairy tales bring for children that read them. Bettelheim points out that “Many parents believe that only conscious reality or pleasant and wish-fulfilling images should be presented to the child - that he should be exposed to only the sunny side of things. But such one-sided fare nourishes the mind only in a one-sided way, and real life is not all sunny” (Bettelheim 1). Parents try to keep their children from knowing reality, so if it's written in a book it will inform the child safely. It provides as an example that they will use when they are older. In “Beauty and the Beast”, Beauty had a rich father, but they lost their fortune. They had to work, so “Beauty rose at four in the morning , and made haste to have the house clean, and dinner ready for the family” (Beaumont 1). She is becoming an adult because she is given these tasks to do. She is acting like a mother that cares for the family by providing them with a meal and cleaning the house. In “Rumpelstiltskin”, a miller tries to impress the king by telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The next day “the girl was brought to him” and “he took her into a room which was quite full of straw, gave her a