Dialectical Journal For Snow White

Snow White Journal In my opinion, there is no Snow White “version” that I actually enjoyed. Every single one we talked and read about in class has their own flaws that mostly affect and “hit” the women reading these tales. Snow White is portrayed as this beautiful girl and that’s all she’s meant to be. In the Grimm’s version of the classic tale, Snow White, the Evil Queen was actually Snow White’s mother, not her stepmother. In fact, Snow White’s actual mom in the Grimm’s version is even more harsh than the Disney’s version. In the Grimm’s version, “...the Grimms’ evil queen, who orders the huntsman to return with the girl’s lungs and liver (she plans to eat both after boiling them in saltwater.” (Introduction 74) How gruesome can one mother

I know that the stepmother was good to Snow White until a “Malicious Women” came along and said “when you know that the day the king dies, your share of the inheritance will be a small one to your stepdaughter’s share.” (Lasair Gheug 90) In my opinion, this quote directly shows that money is everything. Money can make or break a relationship. For the queen, money was what made her fall for the king, but will make her want to get rid of her stepdaughter. How terrible is it to see that all a woman cares about is money? She doesn’t work for anything but just takes and takes as much as she can. That story is portraying women as gold diggers and scavengers and it’s not right because some women have successful jobs and support their families instead of just relying on the man. I don’t think it gives women credit enough in all that we do. People portray us as incapable

She got pregnant because of a flower that she ate. This to me is showing women that we should do what God wants us to and that is to wait until marriage. It’s okay for a man to talk about sex and look at women in repulsing ways, but when women want sex they are called whores and sluts and to me that isn’t right. How is it okay for a man but it's repulsing for a woman? “ ...Lilla felt herself to be pregnant, and nearly died of grief, for she knew that she had done nothing compromising or dishonest…” (Basile 80) See, the words DISHONEST and COMPROMISING are showing that it isn’t okay for women to have sex because a real woman should wait until marriage, but no one would question the man who could impregnate a unwed