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Who’s the fairest of them all?

Who’s the fairest of them all?

The Disney Snow White is very cheerful with songs to sing along to just like every other Disney movie. But just like every Disney movie there is a darker version of the story. In the Brothers Grimm version there is an evil step mother who wants to be the fairest of them all. Once Snow White is older the mirror says that Snow White is a thousand times more fair than the queen. This is all the same as the Disney movie. In the Brothers Grimm version the queen wants her dead but the huntsman ends up not killing Snow White because she is so beautiful. Just like in the Disney movie, Snow White stays with the 7 dwarfs. What surprises me about Snow White is that even though she was repeatedly told not to let anyone in and that queen will try to disguise herself, Snow White still falls for her trick. What also surprised me was that the prince who found snow white’s clear coffin only wanted to keep the coffin for himself. He doesn’t just kiss her like in the Disney movie. The way she woke up was the princes servants dropped the coffin and the apple fell out of snow whites throat and she was alive again. The most disturbing part of the story was that the queen had to wear iron shoes and dance to her death.

The theme of the story to me is beauty and envy. Every girl wants to be the prettiest girl. The story is all about being the fairest. Snow White is the fairest and the queen does everything she can to be the fairest. The dwarves only let Snow White stay is because she is so beautiful. They won’t even put her in the ground, and the prince only loves Snow White because of how beautiful she is. He was even willing to pay just to have her on display.

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