Bettelheim points to the fact that the story of "Cinderella" has an eastern origin. He also compares "Cinderella" with some German stories in which an ash-boy, like Cinderella, becomes a king at the end. Bettelheim mentions Brothers Grimm's version, "Aschenputtel" in which Cinderella was sitting among the ashes. He believes that living among the ashes was the symbol of degradation and being debased. It also symbolizes death. Bettelheim says that the story expresses the inner feelings of a child who is suffering from sibling rivalry.

Cinderella is shown as a very beautiful, nice, and innocent girl who is being treat

John Wareham, in "Oedipus Wrecks" mentions about Maverinc, a small entrepreneur who attaches his name with a company and goes on to win success and autonomy. According to Wareham, Maverinc is motivated by the Oedipus complex. Maverinc wanted to earn his mother's favor by outperforming his father. Maverinc sold newspapers in his college days to earn his pocket money, and did some kind of small business to pay his college fees so that he does not depend on his father for that.

ild thinks that someone else is sharing the love he is supposed to get. The child doubts his worthiness, and thinks that if he were really worthy then his parents would never reject him. The child then starts getting involved in the Oedipal conflicts. In this oedipal jealousy, he wants to get rid of his parent of the same sex in order to get love of the parent of the same sex. Bettelheim says that the child feels guilty for wanting to get rid of his parent, and thinks that his siblings are free from such bad thoughts.

ed very badly by her stepsisters. Even though Cinderella does all the dirtiest work, and obeys the commands of her stepsisters and stepmother, she does not receive any kind of appreciation for whatever she does. But a wealthy prince at the end rescues her from this situation. When a child is reading or hearing this story, he compares himself with Cinderella, and the evil behavior of the stepmother and stepsisters of Cinderella, and thinks that he is lucky because he is not suffering like she did. And he knows that he is not treated, as badly as Cinderella, and at the end he would also be rescued like Cinderella.

When the child sees Cinderella being treated badly in spite of her goodness and beauty he compares his qualities with Cinderella's. He pictures his parents as Cinderella's stepmother. The child sees Cinderella's stepsisters as if they were his brothers and sisters, and that they have some advantage over him. The attention of parents towards a child is more decisive when it comes to sibling rivalry. The child starts picturing himself in place of Cinderella, and thinks that his siblings are preferred to him.

Bettelheim mentions about the five-and-a-half-year-old girl, and says that it is very easy for a child to feel that he or she is a "Cinderella." This five-and-a-half-year-old girl tells her mother and sister that they are jealous of her because she was the most beautiful in the family. Bettelheim says that a child believes that Cinderella deserves her dejected state, and this is because the child's mind is end the end of the oedipal period.1 Bettelheim says that it is the child's feelings about his parents when his brothers or sisters are more capable than himself. According to

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