Fairy tales use biblical allusions to resurrection and evil to convey messages and create familiarity for the readers. In “The Girl Without Hands”, uses biblical allusions such as a garden and angel symbolizing paradise and the garden of Eden, and the evil one as a warning towards Satan and the temptations he brings. “The Juniper Tree” and “Snow White” use biblical allusions very similarly as they both use the cycle of resurrection alluding to when Jesus rose from the grave to paint a message of hope. “Snow White” uses allusions to also give a message of hope through how Snow White rests with God on the 7th bed, symbolizing the time when he rested on the 7th day after he created the earth. “The Juniper Tree” also uses “The Evil One” as a warning …show more content…
After the stepmother was crushed by the millstone, “Smoke, flames, and fire were rising from the place, and when that was over, the little brother was standing there” (7). His resurrection after a cycle of three suggests Jesus’s resurrection. The boy sings a song as a bird three times and then is resurrected, similar to Jesus' resurrection on the third day. “The Juniper Tree”, conveys a message of hope in the brother's defeat of death and “The Evil One”. These biblical allusions give readers a message of hope and belief in the power of God. “Snow White” uses biblical allusions to give a message of hope. Snow White rests on the seventh bed, suggesting God’s sabbath rests on the seventh day of creation. The “Snow White” also includes resurrection, alluding to Jesus’s resurrection, as a message of hope in the power of God and against evil forces. During the story Snow White wanders through the woods and stumbles upon a house with seven beds, finally resting in the seventh suggesting a sabbath rest: “Afterward, because she was so tired, she lay down on a bed, but none of them felt right — one was too long, the other too short — until finally the seventh one was just