Snow White

Snow White is a story of a young princess whose step-mother boils over with jealousy because her magic mirror tells her that Snow White is the prettiest in all the land and not her. After a failed attempt at taking her life by hiring a huntsmen, the Queen takes matters into her own hands while Snow White live with the seven dwarfs. Of course once the Queen successfully poisons her, true loves kiss awakes her like most typical Disney stories.

 

The Grimms Brothers’ fairy tale and Disney’s movie do not differ in many ways. Disney actually adapted the film very well with the original. The main difference is that the Queen attempted three times to take Snow White’s life in the original fairy tale. First she tied her tightly into a bodice, then she had Snow brush her hair with a poisoned comb, and then finally Snow White was poisoned by an apple. The first two attempts were a fail as the dwarves saved her.

The Prince’s kiss awakes Snow in both versions but in the original, Snow had never met the Prince yet she had in the movie. Just like in both versions the Queen eventually dies, but in Disney’s she falls off a cliff while in the Grimms Brother’s, her death is more dark when she puts on hot shoes and dances to death at Snow’s wedding.

 

In both versions of this classic, Snow White runs off with the Prince and leaves her volunteering with the dwarfs behind. This is showing both love because once you are married, you leave loved ones behind but it also shows that sometimes people forget the people who got them to where they are in life in the midst of love.