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    “Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all”. In the 1930s, cinema was not one of the most viewed things, many people were being somewhat affected by World War II. During an extremely catastrophic time, Walt Disney decided to create “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, a movie filled with imagination that formed an incredible legacy. This movie was one of the earliest animated films at the time, and after a tremendous critical success, can still be seen among our youth. It is a classic Oscar

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    brother’s original fairytale. In both stories Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs conveys a message about the mirror representing a sense of self on a superficial and deep emotional level. It reinstates many cultural roles that have been put upon both woman and men. It is a story of self discovery and whether or not the characters are able to develop throughout the story in relation to the affects to a “real life individual”. A common theme in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for both the Disney film

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    Where it originated: Snow White is a 19th century German fairy tale which has become well known across western world. The first edition was published by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 and since many more adaptions and variations have been produced. In the first edition, cannibalisation and murder were main themes of the gruesome fairy-tale but since they have been changed by society to accommodate the younger generations with new themes of vanity. The first feature-length film was produced by Walt Disney

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    Reflection - Graphic Representation: My sequential artwork represents the introduction to Little Snow White by The Brothers Grimm, from the beginning, when her mother wishes for a child, to when her step mother, the Queen, did not rest, as she was envious of beautiful Snow White. I selected this section of the story as it portrays Snow White’s continuously growing beauty and the Queen’s competitive envious response, which is a main insight into her identity as an innocent pawn in the Queen’s cruel

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    Although both versions of the story we all commonly know as “Snow White” have a similar twang, they differ from each other in many ways. The stories I will be comparing are titled: “The Cristal Casket (An Italian Tale)”; the original version, and the Grimm Brothers version: “Snow White”. Overall, the plot is vaguely similar: a woman’s jealousy of another girl’s beauty leads to insanity and violence, the girl falls into a death-like sleep and is awoken by a handsome young man who saves her and they

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    “Little Snow-White”, written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm is about an old Queen, whose jealousy of beauty surpasses many morals when she discovers she is not the fairest of them all, which evidently leads the story into portraying many stereotypes and prejudices of feminism. 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

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    The film “Snow White and the Huntsman” depicts the journey between the two main characters Snow White and Ravenna the evil Queen. Snow White, who is played by Kristen Stewart for majority of the film, has been locked in her slain father's castle for years. The character is imprisoned by her father’s evil second wife played by Charlize Theron, whose now queen. The Queen also lives in fear of losing of her young appearance and uses the blood of virgins to restore it. She tests the success of this with

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    Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs is a fairytale that reflects the good vs. evil in every story. I want to find out what characters fit the definition of sacred and why. Who is representing the good and who is representing evil. I want to look for rituals performed throughout the story and what moral patterns and consequences fit into the story. Does this story have any concepts that would fit or follow the Sacred Quest. Which character best describes me and my relationship to the sacred. Finally, how

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    “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” is a Disney productions classic. It was created in 1937 and was the first full-length animated film. This was a story about a wicked queen who raised step-daughter, the princess Snow White. One day the queen’s magic mirror told her the fairest of them all was Snow White and that made her very upset. The queen sent her huntsman out to murder Snow White. Although the huntsmen found Snow White, he could not bring himself to harm her. The huntsman instead told her to

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    film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the tale revolutionized and began a Golden Age of animation. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the very first full length animated motion picture as well as the first film to release a motion-picture soundtrack recording in 1944 by the Disney studio. (Backlots) Also, “it was the first to employ the use of Technicolor, and features the first large-scale use of the multiplane camera which became a signature at Disney for decades”. (Backlots) Before Snow White

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