1. At the young age of seven, Snow White, upon the request of her step-mother, is taken to a forest. Unable to fulfill his duty, the huntsman releases the child assuming that she will not make it far. Snow White is left to wander the unnerving forest as the huntsman leaves to report to the queen. Alone and afraid, Snow White stumbles upon a cottage that belongs to seven mining dwarfs. In exchange for shelter, they agree Snow White may stay if she keeps it tidy. Despite the isolation of the cabin, her step-mother discovers Snow White’s location. After three attempts, the queen succeeds in killing Snow White. However, after seeing Snow White in her clear coffin, a prince asks to take Snow White with him. On the way out, the prince’s servants …show more content…
Rather than accepting her daughter’s beauty, she “turned yellow and green with envy” and sends a huntsman to execute the young girl. The “proud and haughty” queen could not permit anyone to “surpass her in beauty.” Although she was once considered “the fairest of all,” the queen’s repulsive personality takes away from her physical beauty. After Snow White ate the apple, the queen “with a dreadful look” watched Snow White and “laughed aloud” as she fell to the floor. Her psychopathic tendencies push the reader to loath anything she has planned. Following her grim actions, karma catches the queen as she is “forced to put on the red-hot shoes” at Snow Whites …show more content…
In the beginning, the Disney version skips out on details that help character development. When starting the Grimm Brothers story, it efficiently develops who Snow White is as a person. By describing how she got her name to the quick character traits of the Snow White and the queen, the reader can immediately form an opinion on the two opposing characters. Snow Whites age is drastically different. In Disney, she is considered to be a teenager, yet in the original, she is a seven year old. The age gap would usually highlight a difference in behavior but, if anything, the teenager is more cowardly than the child. As Snow White is running through the forest, Disney adds animals to soften the fear associated with a dark forest, whereas Grimm adds “over sharp stones and through thorns, and the wild beasts ran past her.” To lighten the mood, Disney adds objects that are considered cute and favorable to scenes that generally contain darker images. As the dwarfs are introduced, the setting is the complete opposite. Rather than eat the food on the table, Snow White immediately makes the food as an act of kindness without meeting the