Disney Versions Of Snow White

Snow White is a fairytale that never gets old. Countless young children know the tale by heart: A young, beautiful girl tries to live a happy life while her mother tries to kill her due to Snow White being prettier than her. Snow White, though, has a much more profound, unexploited history. There are many versions of this story that not a lot of people read. Two texts that were particularly fascinating were Gold Tree and Silver Tree as well as Nourie Hadig. In Gold Tree and Silver Tree, Silver Tree becomes jealous with Gold Tree’s beauty and tries to kill her newlywed daughter, but Gold Tree made a new friend, and she helped take care of Silver Tree. In Nourie Hadig, Nourie is left in the forest by her father because her mother wants to kill her. There, she takes care of a prince all the while her mother is trying to find her. Both these stories have amazing similarities and striking differences, but the similarities significantly outweigh the differences. The stories are astonishingly similar many ways, but their characters are the most standout thing about these stories. While these figures have their differences, the similarities are much more eye-catching. These characters are similar because their personalities follow a similar rhythm throughout the stories and their actions also stay the same.

Snow White starts off with a lonely queen who sat sewing by her window one mid-winter night. She pricked her finger and seeing the blood so red made her wish for a child who has cheeks as red as blood, her

Snow White is a story that can be viewed by from many different viewpoints, with different mindsets. It is clear though, while examining "Snow White" from an archetypal perspective, that the story is heavily influenced by several archetypal aspects, the most evident ones are: The use of the "lucky" numbers (3 & 7), the use of associated colours (white, black, & red), and the correlation between seasons.

Snow White’s predominant attributes are her dark hair, big brown eyes, red lips and slim body. Her signature dress with blue top and yellow skirt underlines her graceful movements while walking and dancing. The bright red hair ribbon and the puffed sleeves match her wide-eyed look and point out her innocence. Moreover, this innocent look, gentleness and immaturity become apparent in every scene of the film. The timbre of her voice is fairly high-pitched and stressing and inflection are those of a young child. This stands in contrast to her romantic longings for the prince when they first meet. Allan finds that Snow White’s sexuality can be seen as “ambiguous because although she is seen as a child … she also has sexually longings for the prince” (39). Evidence can be found in the queen’s envious and jealous reaction when she learns of the first meeting between the prince and Snow White.

The dwarves are amazed by the girl’s beauty and allow her to stay with them forever as long as she handles all the household chores. Snow White happily obliges and begins to take care of the dwarves. Unfortunately, the evil step-mother gets word of Snow White’s death being a fraud and makes three attempts to trick and fool the princess. On the third attempt, the old hag is successful and upon biting in to a deliciously plump red apple sends Snow White tumbling to the ground. The seven dwarves decide Snow White is to captivating to be buried underground so they decided to encase her in glass and take turns guarding her remains. One day a handsome prince happens to come across the beautiful dead princess and begs the dwarves to let him purchase her. Reluctantly, the dwarves give the prince Snow White and a bump on the transport home causes the poisonous apple to fall out of her mouth and the princess magically comes back to life. The prince marries Snow White, and the evil step mother is forced to dance in hot-iron boots until she dies.

In “Little Snow White” by Germany, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm, there is a Queen who becomes jealous of her seven-year-old daughter. She envied her daughter’s beauty and sends a huntsman to kill Snow White. Snow White is then all alone and unable to care for herself and becomes dependent of the Seven Dwarfs. Although she is the main character, she is also the weakest character in the story. In Fables, we encounter a very different Snow White. Here Snow White oversees the town, Fabletown. Unlike the original fairytale story, there are no Dwarfs looking after her. She doesn’t need a Prince to come to her rescue because she is the hero in her own right. Her fierceness makes her a strong female who embodies power. Unlike the Little Snow White, in Fables Snow White is the head in charge, she’s independent, and bold.

By demands, the huntsman took Snow White into the woods to kill her, but was deceived by her beautiful nature. In order to fulfill the queen’s orders, he must bring back the lungs and liver of Snow White but instead satisfied her needs with those of a boar. This projects a firm hierarchy as although originally dictated by a noble, the huntsman could not fulfill the queen’s duty as he – of a lower class, could not face dong harm to another noble –Snow

The story begins with the concept of women being compared to nature, when a mother wishes to have a child, “who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood”. Her child, Snow-White, is given nature characteristics that show she is nurturing. These characteristics are objects, which to some extent give the effect that women are seen as objects. Furthermore, the backbone of the story takes place through female competition for beauty, when the Queen learns that she has lost her first place ranking to Snow-White in the beauty category. She then orders a huntsman to kill Snow-White for the reason that the Queen strives to be the most beautiful in her land. Her actions represent that the only thing women care about is being the best female and that they will compete in extreme orders just to win. Afterwards, during the huntsman’s quest to kill Snow-White, she begs him not to do so and he respects her wishes. The is solely because, as the Grimm brother wrote, “she was so beautiful the huntsman took pity on her”1. Later on in the story, male gaze appears again when the prince stats that he, “… cannot live without being able to see Snow-White”1. This clearly demonstrates that Snow-White is an

According to Abate (48), “Snow white reflects the strong past presence as well as powerful current reality of child murder” committed by the ( biological or non-biological ) parents. It “breaks the silence surrounding filicide” (47). Other fairy tales like Red Riding Hood (RRH), Cinderella, Bluebeard, Hansel and Gretel, and Little

In the original Grimm’s tale, Snow White’s ignorance almost kills her three times, and in the end the Queen is forced to wear red-hot iron shoes and dance until she dies. The concept of “true love’s kiss” is also nonexistent within the original tale. Many find the Grimm’s fairy tales dark, yet Donald Barthelme’s modern retelling of the classic Snow White is so extreme to the point it emphasizes the flaws of society’s view of Disney’s Snow White; John Pizer, who wrote the article “The Disenchantment of Snow White” states that rather a satirical piece, Barthelme’s Snow White can even be labelled as an anti-fairy tale. Though Barthelme introduces his Snow White similarly to the classic tale in which he states “hair is black as ebony, the skin white as snow,” the very first description of her immediately disconnects Disney’s Snow White from Barthelme’s. Barthelme first introduces Snow White with having many beauty spots, which is already a severance since Snow White has always been considered flawless inside and outside.

In Little Snow White, this “death and rebirth” is centered around the young girl ‘Snow White’ as she endures the ‘Evil Queen’ many trials and tribulations. She was attacked by the Queen three times, in an attempt to be known as the fairest in the land. One of the times ‘Snow White’ was attacked was when the Queen visited ‘Snow White’ and said, “ “You surely may take a look.” Said the old woman, pulling out the poison comb and holding it up. The child liked it so much, that she let herself be deceived, and she opened the door” (Grimm Web).

In the brothers Grimm version, the queen still demands the death of Snow White and the Huntsman still lets her go. Only this time he kills a boar and brings the queen back its lungs and liver and she eats them, thinking that they are from Snow White’s body. Snow White still meets the dwarves in the woods, but their introduction to her was more akin to that of goldilocks and the three bears. Then, when she is poisoned by the apple, the kiss of the prince is not what awakens her. Instead the prince begs the dwarves to have her dead body and the trip to the castle dislodges the apple bite caught in her throat. Finally, at the marriage of the happy couple, the queen arrives and is forced to dance in red hot iron shoes until she dies. Definitely not what one would remember from the Disney adaptation.

When they got married the Evil Queen got very jealous of Snow White not only of her beauty, but the Evil Queen was not going to be queen any more. She wanted revenge on snow white, so she was thinking of crashing Snow’s wedding to ruin their wedding and maybe kidnap Snow.

Walt Disney had to make changes in the details and the plot of the original Snow White tale published by the German Grimm Brothers in Grimms’ Fairy Tales to fit American society’s interests. These interests during 1930s America that influenced Disney’s decision to change the tale included: the changing role of women in society, the people’s concept of romance, and popular political systems.

Snow white is an orthodox animation in its narrative that follows the conceptions of realism. Paul Wells that “the kind of film which seems to be the most accurately represent reality is the kind of film that attempts to rid itself of obvious cinematic conventions in the prioritization of recording the people, objects, environments and events which characterise the common understating of lived experience.” The film follow this conception accordingly. The film follows the traditional 3 Act Structure with a beginning, middle, climax and resolution. In the beginning, snow white is introduced as the powerless princess who is oppressed by her evil step