"Little Snow White" is a worldwide known fairy tale written by the Grimm brothers in 1812. The story is about a beautiful young girl that has to escape from the care of her envious mother with an intention. The story follows Snow White through her journey until her mother isn't her worry anymore. The underlying message of the story is a how the Queen lives with Schizophrenia and Narcissistic personality disorder. The mental illness that will be covered is a personality and mental disorder. People with healthy personalities tend to deal with stresses normally and have no trouble forming relationships with family, friends, and co-workers. According to the Mental Health America, those who suffer from a personality disorder have difficulty dealing …show more content…
The Queen is shown as vain from the beginning of the story. For example, every day she wakes up she has to be remind by her mirror that she is the most beautiful of the land. This shows how much self-importance the Queen depends on daily. This completely has a negative affect towards the Queen once the mirror tells her that her daughter is "a thousand times fairer". The Queen's ego is damaged, which gets her "pale with envy". The envy drives the Queen's oversensitive to failure to be malicious towards Snow. What drives the Queen's narcissism is her vanity because once Snow is 'dead', the Queen seems to go back to her normal self. She's is more calm knowing she is now the most beautiful in the land. The Queen's reassurance of being the fairest keeps her narcissistic personality at ease, but once triggered it riles up the Queen making her …show more content…
This common amongst schizophrenic people because they experience hallucinations, such as hearing voices. These voices tend to be critical, complimentary, or neutral, but in the Queen's case is a mix of complimentary and critical. At first, the mirror replies by saying the Queen is the most beautiful of them all, but then they get taunting. The mirror's voice gets to the Queen by saying that "But Little Snow-White is still a thousand times fairer than you.” That line can be seen as the mirror teasing the Queen by hurting her ego. The way the mirror compares Snow and her mother by saying Snow is way more beautiful damages the way the Queen sees herself. This messes with the way how the Queen thinks, manages her emotions and decisions. It makes her vulnerable by targeting her insecurity, which is her