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snow white post

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The beginning of the Brothers Grimm Snow White is very similar to the story I know from childhood. the mother died, the stepmother asks for the child’s organs, asks the mirrors who is fairer, etc. However there were some things incorporated in this tale that were definitely NOT the same.  for example, the witch going multiple times to try to kill Snow was different. in Disney’s version, there was but one poisoned apple to kill her, but in this version, there were also silk laces and a comb to kill her. How Snow awoke was also not what  I remembered from previous tales. The apple she had eaten got dislodged from her throat and this is was awoke her, as opposed to her being awoke with true loves first kiss. The story ended in a dark way, with the Evil stepmother dancing in red hot iron shoes until she fell over dead, which is not a pleasant way to die, and a little graphic. This is what most surprised me in the story, because she is being tortured to death. from my memory of Disney she falls to her death off a cliff, but by accident and not in any way intentional. The fact that was okay with her step mother getting tortured is not at all like the sweet Snow of Disney.

The theme of this story is that being vain has a downfall. It is exactly what drove the Queen to her death, because she would give anything to be the “fairest of them all.” I believe this is the underlying message because  Snow never actively tries to be the fairest, so because the Evil Queen is actively trying to destroy snow so that she can be the most beautiful shows that one should not be vain.

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