The Brothers Grimm's Little Snow White

Throughout the early stages of "Little Snow White" by The Brothers Grimm, magic was used for evil in the same way as Ruskin. In this instance, the Snow Queen to lock away our protagonist to remain “fairest of all” (Grimm, Snow) to ensure that this remains true a magic mirror is posed a question each day “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who in this land is fairest of all?” (Grimm, Snow) all is well for the Snow Queen as the power is in her possession until Little Snow White becomes more beautiful. The mirrors are symbols to reflect truth and then highlight the divide between what natural beauty is compared to what society deems as beautiful. This is a common premise seen in all the tales as well as in the core pagan values. The author does this because the shift in beauty results in a loss of power for the Snow Queen. The mirror although acknowledging the queen's beauty maintains that “You, my queen, are fair; it is true. But Snow-White is a thousand times fairer than you” (Grimm, Snow) even with isolation and having nature as her surroundings Little Snow White is the more beautiful and thus the more powerful character. The beauty that Snow White embodies is due to her upbringing with nature and gives her a natural aura of beauty like the “light of day” (Grimm,

This is a key distinction between Little Snow White and the Snow Queen all due to the way Little Snow White uses nature and approaches her surroundings; these aforementioned factors explore a relationship with nature used in paganist areas and