...princess with fair skin and blue eyes. She was so fair that she was named Snow White. Her mother died when Snow White was a baby and her father married again. This queen was very pretty but she was also very cruel. The wicked stepmother wanted to be the most beautiful lady in the kingdom and she would often ask her magic mirror, “Mirror! Mirror on the wall! Who is the fairest of them all?” And the magic mirror would say, “You are, Your Majesty!” But one day, the mirror replied, “Snow White is the fairest of them all!” The wicked queen was very angry and jealous of Snow White. She ordered her huntsman to take Snow White to the forest and kill her. “I want you to bring back her heart,” she ordered. But when the huntsman reached the forest with Snow White, he took pity on her and set her free. He killed a deer and took its heart to the wicked queen and told her that he had killed Snow White. Snow White wandered in the forest all night, crying. When it was daylight, she came to a tiny cottage and went inside. There was nobody there, but she found seven plates on the table and seven tiny beds in the bedroom. She cooked a wonderful meal and cleaned the house and tired, finally slept on one of the tiny beds. At night, the seven dwarfs who lived in the cottage came home and found Snow White sleeping. When she woke up and told them her story, the seven dwarfs asked her to stay with them. When the dwarfs were away, Snow White would make delicious meals for them. The dwarfs loved her and cared...
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...Hi, Be Our Guest & Be A Part of Our World I know they say that every fairytale starts with “Once upon a time…” but honestly this fairytale happened last week and it won’t be all that magical to tell you. I guess I should probably introduce myself right? Hi, I’m Cinderella. I’m just your average blonde who looses glass slippers at balls. Don’t let me fool you though. This story has absolutely nothing to do with me. I’m just the narrator. It all began last Tuesday when this guy named Ryan met a beautiful girl walking along the pier. I know this just sounds so romantic right? Trust me it gets better. This beautiful girl, well, she didn’t have a name, but let me tell you she was one beautiful person. Ryan, being the typical guy who thinks he’s hotter than the sun and that every girl should bow down in his presence, chased this girl all day long using every pick up line he’d ever heard. Here’s the catch my friends. This girl, wasn’t just any girl, she was Ursula, the evil sea witch. This is where that gloomy music that sounds like “dun dun dun” is played right? Anyway, Ursula saw right through this superficial man and put a spell on him that split him into seven little men that represented his traits and characteristics. Ryan was no longer Ryan, in fact he was now Studly, Jockey, Druggy, Dummy, Lusty, Nerdy and Giant. I didn’t pick the names so don’t blame me. Ursula told these seven little men that the only way she would restore them into one was if they mined for her...
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...The Grimm brothers are well-known story-tellers. Most of those who have seen the classic Disney movies like Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs have experienced an innocent version of the gruesome and dark tales that are the Grimm fairy-tales. In the beginning of their journey, the brothers had no intention of becoming story-tellers. The article “Grimms' Fairy Tales” states that the brothers found that the best way to allow someone to share the sounds of their dialect was to share the stories that had been passed down to them; the brothers kept a record of the stories they heard and had a book published in 1812 called Kinder und Hausmarchen, which translates to “Tales of Children and the Home”. Fairy tales during the brothers' time didn't have the same purpose as the ones today do. Bayer explains that during the Grimms' time, fairy tales were told to teach lessons and to pass on cultural values and wisdom to younger generations, not to entertain them. Because the purpose of these tales wasn't to entertain, the story-tellers weren't concerned about frightening their younger audiences (“Grimms' Fairy Tales”). Norton states that the tales were told around the fire to children and adults alike. Norton also tells us that, because these stories were dark and provocative, society decided that the nature of the tales had to change. Society had to protect their children from the gruesome nature of the Grimm fairy tales. Society may take the bulk of the blame for the changing...
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...what extent is the film of snow white and the huntsman based on Grimm’s Snow White (from Kinder-u. Hausmarchen)? What differences are there between Grimm’s 1812 and 1857 treatments of this particular story? In 1812 Jacob Grimm who was interested in languages and discoveries wrote his first edition book called Kinder- und Hausmurchen. This book included many well-known stories even Snow White. Recently a movie called Snow White and the Huntsman appeared in theatres. This particular movie has a great relativity as to the way the story is being told. The following paragraphs will include details about the movie of Snow White and the huntsman and its relativity to Grimm’s versions of the story. The movie Snow White and the Huntsman is mainly about a women who becomes a queen after being found by the King. The queen whose is named Ravenna lures the king into falling in love with her beauty. The night of their wedding Ravenna poisons the King and stabs him in the heart. She then sets out and opens the gates for her brother and their army in order to take over the kingdom. While the kingdom is being overtaken by Ravenna and her army, some of the kings close companions try to escape, though the gates are closed off before the kings’ daughter, Snow White can escape. The queen makes the decision to spare Snow Whites life and imprisons her. Ravenna believes there will come a time when Snow White will be of good use to her. As time goes on and Snow White gets older, Ravenna realizes...
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...Good vs. Evil The Brothers Grimm in their story, “Little Red Cap,” teach their audience that it is good to obey the rules one is given. For example, the main character, Little Red Cap, was instructed by her mother to bring cake and wine to her grandmother’s house and to not stray from the path. However, she meets the wolf who convinces her otherwise, “As soon as she picked one she saw an even more beautiful one somewhere else and went after it, and so she went deeper and deeper into the woods,” (Grimm 14). This example illustrates the claim that it is good to obey because if she would have listened to her mother and stayed on the path straight to her grandmothers house, the wolf wouldn’t have been able to beat her there to quietly eat her grandmother. Therefore, it’s good to obey ones orders to ensure the safety of oneself and those around them. This version of the tale by the Brothers Grimm was specifically written for an audience of German children in the 19th century. The claim that it is good to obey is very important to the audience because it taught children to listen to their parents so that they would not get in trouble or harm, which was very important during that time period of authoritarian culture in Germany. It’s important because parents would use these stories in order to teach their children lessons in an entertaining manner that would help them understand its importance. The Brothers Grimm use the bad character in the story to teach the lesson that it is bad...
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...In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Snow only fell for the Queen's evil ways once (01:09:50-01:15:40). However, in the story, she fell for her three times, although Snow didn’t know because the Queen changed her appearance each time. “Little snow-white looked out and said, go away, I cannot let anyone come in. I suppose you can look, said the old woman, and pulled the poisonous comb out and held it up,” (Grimm). This is one of the many examples of the differences between story and movie. Others would be the Queen wanting to eat Snow’s lung and liver and then trying to kill Snow three times, with lacing up her dress and suffocating her, using a poisonous comb, and then the famous poisonous apple. “Kill her, and bring me back her lung and liver as a token,” (Grimm). Another is how the Queen dies or how Snow meets the Prince. However, there are changes to the story that makes the movie show brighter aspects. In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Snow gets to know the dwarfs and met the Prince before she was cast away from the kingdom. Snow meets the Prince one day while she is collecting water from the well and singing (00:03:35-00:06:58). She also makes friends with the dwarfs and sings and dances with them (00:52:03-00:59:00). This gives a lighter mood with the musical design and the happily ever after ending. The problem this...
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...The songs help contribute by putting a detailed picture in the reader's mind. They can tell us a lot about the creatures. First, The song sung by the dwarfs has good imagery. This Imagery helps us image what they would look and sound like. For example, when the dwarfs sung the line “Far over the misty mountains grim To the dungeons deep and caverns dim. We must away, ere break of day, To win our harps and gold from him!” This shows us that the dwarves are somewhat determined and brave. I feel the author does this to help put in our heads the dwarfs personality, and their goal/objective of this adventure. Secondly,The song that the elves sung helps put in our head what they sound like, and also what their personalities are like. For example,...
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...development of characters, incorporating Disney references in both worlds and comparing the contrast between the different views of love from all the characters. The film begins with a lovely opening sequence in hand-drawn animation set in the fairytale land of Andalasia. It’s a perfect summary of the classic Disney fairy-tale motif, capturing everything great of the old approach. The audience is first introduced to the fairytale stereotypical characters: joyful princess-to-be Giselle, lunkheaded Prince Edward, comical Nathaniel, malicious Queen Narissa and feisty Pip the chipmunk. Giselle serenades her fellow woodland creatures yearning for the arrival of a handsome prince to deliver her ‘true love’s kiss’, a reference to the only way Snow White and Aurora could be awakened from the curses that were put upon them. Prince Edward is your typical charming knight in shining armour and declares his love for Giselle instantly after hearing her sing. His stepmother, Queen Narissa, is the antagonist and does not want to step down from the throne so she banishes Giselle from the idyllic kingdom and into the not magical, unforgiving live-action world of New York city. What better purgatory than the place where, as the stepmother puts it, “There are no happily ever afters”. The characters of the reality world are: cynical, non-nonsense Robert, fairytale believer Morgan and romantic hopeful Nancy. When Giselle winds up lost in the wilds of New York, she begins to realise that old, kind-looking...
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...Little Snow-White Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Once upon a time in midwinter, when the snowflakes were falling like feathers from heaven, a queen sat sewing at her window, which had a frame of black ebony wood. As she sewed she looked up at the snow and pricked her finger with her needle. Three drops of blood fell into the snow. The red on the white looked so beautiful that she thought to herself, "If only I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood in this frame." Soon afterward she had a little daughter who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood, and therefore they called her Little Snow-White. And as soon as the child was born, the queen died. A year later the king took himself another wife. She was a beautiful woman, but she was proud and arrogant, and she could not stand it if anyone might surpass her in beauty. She had a magic mirror. Every morning she stood before it, looked at herself, and said: Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who in this land is fairest of all? To this the mirror answered: You, my queen, are fairest of all. Then she was satisfied, for she knew that the mirror spoke the truth. Snow-White grew up and became ever more beautiful. When she was seven years old she was as beautiful as the light of day, even more beautiful than the queen herself. One day when the queen asked her mirror: Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who in this land is fairest of all? It answered: You, my queen, are fair; it is true. But Snow-White...
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...This “point” could be a phase of misfortune or an overwhelming feeling of despair. In the movie “Snow White”, the wicked step mother evidently has/had low self-esteem issues if she is willing to murder her daughter in order to be the “fairest” one in her land. Well, just as villains, I too have gone through a hardship that has invigorated me to acquire greatness and success (although I wouldn’t go as far as to commit murder like a certain wicked step mother attempted to). To say that my past was simply a “bad time” would be a treacherous understatement; it reeks of darkness and sorrow. I still get flashbacks: diary entries stained with tears, blood trickling down an arm, shrieks of vile words and a subsequent sob. This is my personal deep pain. Some may decide to mourn over grief for extensive extents of time. I, on the other hand, thrust the...
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...The snow goddess One day a grandpa named Roy was telling his grandchildren the story of the snow goddess and her mythical creature named Articuno. The grandpa said, “Holly the goddess of snow was never as nice as she is right now” he went on “and she was never as white as she is now.” The grandchildren asked, “ why wasn’t she as nice as she is now grandpa,” he answered “let me tell you the story of the snow goddess.” He starts, “one day when me and my friends Ivy, Lucia, and Erica all went on a sailing trip it was all fun and games till a huge snow storm appeared out of the blue.” Grandpa Roy started to cry as he said “ the boat flipped over and I lost one of my friends that day, but all I remember is waking up on an...
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...Dysfunctional Families: The Expectations and Realities Many readers of Cinderella and Snow White have never realized how dysfunctional the families are in these childhood fairytales. Over the years many of these stories have been revised and retold to children. Although these versions are more children appropriate, the originals contain cases of extreme dysfunctional families. Fairytales such as Cinderella and Snow White are prime examples of such. In the original Grimm’s versions of these two tales, one would definitely agree that they contain more gore and violence than the Walt Disney spin offs of the stories. Spin offs such as Ella Enchanted and the three A Cinderella Stories are more common in today’s society. But what most people don’t realize as they read these stories is that they are promoting the idea that all step mothers are evil and will make their step children the slave or maid of the house. These stories are extremely influential to children of young ages and tell children that dysfunctional families are okay in this society. In the Grimm’s tale of Cinderella, her stepmother is extremely verbally abusive towards her. When the stepmother and her two daughters move into Cinderella and her father’s home, she questions him as to why that useless creature (referring to his daughter, Cinderella) has the best room in the house, sends her to the kitchen, and claims her as the maid of the house. (Grimm 1) the stepmother in this story is one of the most common that young...
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...Snow White Fairy Tale Comparison The story of young girl forced to flee from her home due to the jealously of her step-mother has been told in many languages in a variety of ways since its first publication by the Brothers Grimm in 1812. Storytellers capture their audiences by relating the common man’s plight to that of Snow White. To gain a greater understanding of this story, it is best to examine three versions that have been told at significantly different times within society. The original story “Little Snow-White” by the Brothers Grimm, Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, and Disney’s “Mirror Mirror” serve as inspiration when discussing the story, language, art direction, heroines, heroes, conflict and resolution with them. As each new adaptation of the story Snow White is told, many individuals will reference the Walt Disney version as fact over the original story by the Brothers Grimm. Two hundred years have passed and the story of Snow White has kept true to its original telling with only minor changes that have been implemented only as a way to appeal to the intended audiences at the time. The physical description of Snow White, our heroine, has always remained close to the original, “a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood” (Taylor, 1884). With Walt Disney being a family oriented individual he made only a minor change to her description, "lips red as a rose, hair black as ebony, and skin white as snow" (Snow White and the...
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...they are fixable. Some examples of tales that have been told to Jenny include: “birds speak the truth”, “beauty proves a royal mind”, and that “death is a small mistake, where [a] kiss revives”. At the end of his list of tales, he says “Jenny, we make just dreams out of our unjust lives”, which clearly means that we only make up fantasies to fulfill a bit of hope and happiness because we suffer through stressful lives. Overall, I assume that he doesn’t want Jenny to worry so much by telling her happy lies. Other than the main idea of how role models tend to make others not worry and be happy, I’ve noticed a lot of contrast within the story. An example is at the beginning of the poem; “Jenny, your mind commands kingdoms of black and white” meanwhile the author’s description of the “real” world is full of “gray...
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...Snow White and the 10 planks of confidence “Hello my name is meera, im allison, and im fayha and we will be presenting the 10 planks of confidence through the story of snow white and the 7 dwarfs” Narrator: Once upon a time in the depths of the Planko Forest, a long lost princess makes her way to an isolated cottage in the middle of the forest. As she approaches the small house hoping to find help, she notices a bright light and hears a cry for help. She peers through the window and sees a strange image. Witch: “You dwarfs haven't been very loyal, so for that I take away any memories you have of yourselfs. See if you can find your way out of this.” [witch gestures hands in a spell like movement] [witch leaves] Narrator: Confused Snow White slowly makes her way into the cottage Snow White: “Hello? Is anyone there?” [walks around the class slowly, looking around] Narrator: She stumbles upon a group of small people Snow White: Hi! What’s your name? Dwarf 1: Umm I…. i dont know.. none of us do Snow White: You don’t know your name? well then I’ll name you Contenta, it stands for content. Narrator: Content: you pick a topic worth talking about. And you Research, research, research. Snow White: Do you want to help me name your other friends? Dwarf 1: Yah! [Snow White and dwarf 1 goes around naming 9 other dwarfs] Snow White: Your name is going to be Orgo for Organization. Narrator: Organization: You have a well planned outline that is easy for you and your...
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