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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs Analysis

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Critically examine any two versions of a fairytale of your choice. Consider their intended audience, themes and motifs they have in common as well as distinguishing features of each version.

The fairytale that I have chosen to critically analyse for this assignment is “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Despite the vast variations of this popular fairytale, the basic common characteristics of fairytales can still be seen in most versions of this fairytale whether they are from Europe, Asia, Africa or the United States. This critical analysis is based on two versions: the first being the Brothers Grimm version of “Snow White” and the second, the Walt Disney 1937 animated version of “Snow White.” This essay will focus primarily on critically …show more content…

Although a lot of themes are touched upon in this fairytale the most prominent themes of “Snow White” include the power of love, triumph of good over evil, good rewarded and evil punished and conflicted relationships. The evil queen’s jealously of her stepdaughter Snow White is a recurring theme that is evident from both the Brothers Grimm and Disney versions of “Snow White”. This is highlighted in both tales by the queen’s engagement with the magic mirror. “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?”(Brothers Grimm, 1918) The use of repetition with this phrase highlights the queens want for beauty which is evidently one of the main contributions to the mother/daughter conflict. Bruno Bettelheim (1976) address an interesting question, “the person for whose love the two are in competition is never mentioned.” Due to the prevalent nature of the mother/daughter conflict in this tale, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar look at the fairytale “Snow White” with a feminine perspective and have suggested that the title of the fairytale should be “Snow White and her wicked stepmother” (Tatar, 1999). This suggestion was recommended due to Disney’s perception of the evil

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