Snow White Archetypes

Snow White is the stepdaughter of the Evil Queen, because apparently her father has an awful taste in women. Because of Snow White’s beauty, she is subjected by the queen to dress in dirty rags to hide her true beauty. But one day Snow White is cleaning the steps with all of her animal friends, not weird at all, singing of how much she wishes that her prince charming will meet her some day. When all of a sudden prince charming hops himself over the fence and approaches Snow White to her dismay. This 30-second encounter is nothing short of a manufacture of fantasy. Despite Snow White being dressed in nasty stain ridden clothes, her beauty consumes the prince, which will come to Snow White’s benefit later in the film.

Throughout both adaptations of Snow White, she is connected to the natural world in ways that reflect her perceived beauty and innocence. Historically, Snow-white has been metaphorically compared to ‘whiteness’ and ‘snow’ which conjures images that she is pure, clean, uncorrupt and innocent. Her

"Little Snow White" is a worldwide known fairy tale written by the Grimm brothers in 1812. The story is about a beautiful young girl that has to escape from the care of her envious mother with a intention. The story follows Snow White through her journey until her mother isn't her worry anymore. The underlying message of the story is a person dealing with a mental illness and how it affects loved ones.

Even though she has the animals help her, she still thinks that it is the only way to make the Dwarfs like her. Along with cleaning a lot and being happy about it, Snow White is shown to be ditzy and dumb.

Snow White starts to only trust the animals in the woods and decides to tell them about everything that happened to her. There were no animals actually talking to her, but she was hallucinating them. Due to the traumatic events she’s been through and the isolation that she has experienced, Snow White begins to develop Dissociative Personality Disorder. She develops seven different personalities, all which, suffered from their own psychological disorders. As Snow White was in the woods, a very handsome man, camping in the woods noticed that Snow White was talking to herself. At first he wanted to help her out, but then he decided to observe her strange behaviors for a few weeks before confronting

Edmund first gives into the temptation of the Turkish Delight, but then realizes that he should be with his siblings. This makes Edmund an evil figure, however, he has a good heart, unlike the White Witch. “…However, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel” (Lewis 89). Having a good heart ultimately saves Edmund from his temptations. This fact sets the White Witch apart from Edmund. She is evil through and through, which makes her the villain character as well as the terrible mother. Although she technically is not a mother, she first acts like a motherly figure for Edmund. The White Witch’s characteristics are similar to that of the Snow Queen in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The siblings encounter Mr. Beaver and Mrs. Beaver on their journey through Narnia. Mr. Beaver serves as a mentor and wise old man archetype. “Safe? Said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you” (Lewis 80). The children trust what Mr. Beaver tells them and he helps them determine good from evil. He takes them in and introduces them to this new

The goodness of Snow-White is heavily emphasized in the story even though she is only said to be 7 years old at the time. “When she was seven years old she was as beautiful as the light of day,” (Grimm). For someone so young to already be so good and

The story of Snow White is a cautionary tale that has been written by many. Each time it has been told, the authors had a different interpretation of how it should be. The two variations that I will be focusing on are The Brothers Grimm’s story and Walt Disney’s film. Although the fairytales are written and filmed by different authors, they share a common theme and two symbols. The theme that is present in both Grimm’s and Disney’s versions is that evil will always be punished. The symbols that are in both tales include the concept of beauty and the red poisonous apple.

Snow White did get kicked out of the castle by her evil Stepmother; and she was ordered to be killed. Although, Snow White did not die and she went to live on with the dwarves; her stepmother disguised herself as an old woman and brought a poisoned apple. This apple contained a sleeping potion that only “True Love’s Kiss” could break the spell. Many years passed as snow white laid in the coffin before a prince came around. The Prince kissed Snow White and she awoke; the dwarves jumped for joy when she awoke. The Prince and Snow White went on to live in a “Happily Ever After” with one another.

Both the original story and the Disney movie tell us how to develop and integrate conflicting aspects of ourselves as our personal unconscious map unfolds. (Flynn, 2005) In the beginning of the story Snow White is both innocent and immature. She lacks a caring mother figure within. There are also ten men in the story and nine are characterized as being weak or derisory. The weak men are comprised of her

Snow-White goes through a lot in this story. This German tale expresses the transitions that go on in her life. Snow-White goes through many changes. Snow-White lived a very normal life before she changed. In the beginning of the story, she had her mom.

In the story Snow Night, the Evil Queen saves Snow White

She remained lying in it, entrusted herself to God, and fell asleep" (Grimm 2). Snow-White is unable to identify, that seeking shelter and falling asleep in an unknown home, is not an appropriate course of action. Her main focus is her exhaustion, and which bed will allow her to have the most comfortable sleep. This series of events are set up to show the increase of severity with each situation she encounters. By this, it is meant that she only continues to act naive and pure. This evidently, helps build up the power behind her character when she decides to end her stepmother's life. Her decision to fall asleep in the home in the woods only further contributes to the concept of purity; as it is understandable that Snow-White has not reached the point of maturity to which she can comprehend the severity of her safety. This passage allows the overall amplification of justice to be seen, through the contrast of her change in character. Leading up to her wedding, Snow-White continues to make decisions that present her as

Snow White is conceivable the most prominent of tall tale, it's the account of an Evil Queen who is envious of her wonderful advance girl and requests a huntsman to slaughter her. After the huntsman can't proceed with executing Snow, she keeps running all through the woods and finds a bungalow. When she has eaten from the kitchen of the cabin, she nods off, just to be found by seven midgets who show compassion for her and concur that she can remain with them as long as she cooks and cleans for them. In the wake of hearing that the huntsman has sold out her from her enchantment reflect, the Evil Queen takes matters into

Snow and Charming arrive. He immediately tries to seduce his new wife but she puts him off telling him she has special plans for the night. He leaves her alone