Synopsis: Once there was a queen who wished for a daughter with hair as dark as ebony, lips as red as blood and skin as white as snow. She got her wish but died soon after. The king married a new woman, beautiful yet very proud. She had a powerful mirror, whom she would ask who is the fairest of all, to which the mirror would reply that she was. However, Snow White was growing up to be more beautiful. One day the mirror replied that Snow White was most beautiful, so the queen ordered the huntsman to take her into the forest and kill her, bringing back her lung and liver. The huntsman took her but couldn't kill her because of her beauty, so he let her go, bringing back the organs of a young boar instead. Snow White ran until she came across a cottage. She eventually found out it was lived in by seven dwarves, who agreed to let her stay if she kept it maintained. Snow White agreed but the queen found out she wasn't dead, and tried to seek her own ways of killing her. Twice she failed, but with the help of a poison apple, Snow White appeared as to never awaken. The dwarves gave her a glass coffin above ground and one day, a prince arrived and happened to see her. The dwarves agreed to let him have her, and while his servants were taking the coffin to the castle, they tripped and the poison apple piece stuck in her throat came out. She awoke and the prince took her back to the palace where they happily married. The queen realized that Snow White wasn't dead, ended up at her castle and wore red hot iron slippers, dancing until she couldn't anymore.

Key points:

Snow White is around 7-years-old - her stepmother is frustrated and stuck with her as she couldn't marry her off yet
This was a common situation in early times - people were uneasy over their fatherly romance with a new wife
cannibalistic - The queen wants to eat her actual liver and lungs, wanting proof of her death and her power
Rhyme of the mirror appears all the way through the story - what she wants to hear vs. the truth, it's famous couplet that helps the storyteller remember his place, also helps the audience get involved
Enchanted forest element
Magical numbers - 7 dwarves, 3 times - the queen tried to kill her
Pharmakon - poison and cure - the apple kills her but the magical properties preserve her and keep her alive
Motif of glass case - locking a girl up until she's ready to be married
Beauty - she just happened to be beautiful, didn't want it originally, opposite of the queen who should just accept that she's an old hag

Lesson - Do not be so vain and get jealous over something you don't have and want. The reason the Disney movie appealed so much was because it was about the idea of someone being overly jealous of another.

	Created by eirabie almost 10 years ago

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