Cinderella
Bruno Bettelheim, the author of "Cinderella": A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts", lived from 1903 to 1990. During his life, he became a well known psychologist and educator. He served as a professor of psychology at Rockford College in 1939 when he became naturalized as an American citizen. Bettelheim was a fruitful writer and was awarded the honor of fellow by several major professional associations. In the essay "Cinderella": A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts." Bruno Bettelheim begins with saying that Cinderella is probably the best known fairy tale and it was first developed in China around 9th century A.D. The story was about misery and hopes, which involve sibling rivalry. Bettelheim vaguely describes different versions of Cinderella that involved sibling rivalry. Bettelheim uses the story of Cain and Able from the Bible to support one of his statements. Cain and Able is the story of two brothers going head to head and eventually one being destroyed by the other. Bettelheim then goes into an outburst of his thesis on how the Cinderella story effects the way children feel about sibling rivalry. After describing that Cinderella did all the work around the house, the sisters didn't respect her and
I greatly appreciate Bettelheim's structure and style in the essay. Bettelheim's style includes negative and positive aspects toward the child, which I value, because he's considering both sides of how Cinderella may affect a child which is important to the reader. An example of Bettelheim's negative statements is, "Even an only child feels that other children have some great advantages over him, and this makes him intensely jealous" (pp. However, the sources that he does use help to understand more in depth about his opinion. He needs to use more professional examples to back up his statements. I also admire the fact that Bettelheim writes down different aspects of how a child feels. she got no credit for all the good work she had done, Bettelheim says, "This is how the child feels when devastated by the miseries of sibling rivalry. Not because I was treated the same as her, but because when a child watches something such as Cinderella, they don't look for an implied message. I don't think readers will be informed about how a child definitely will feel, but more of how a child might feel after viewing the movie. Perhaps if he used more professional sources, he may have gotten my attention and persuaded me a bit more. One thing that Bettelheim includes to describe at the very beginning of his essay, which I admire, is Freud's unconscious theory. The structure is very clear and easy to follow. How he describes little parts of Cinderella and then explains how that part may affect a child makes it so the reader can easily identify with what part of the essay Bettelheim is talking about. Although Bettelheim seems to be using his opinions and not true professional facts in his essay, the examples that he did choose to use make the essay more "colorful" and interesting to read.
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