Summary
The princess, snow white end up into trouble because an evil, power hungry Queen marries her father and tries to kill her out of vanity.
Although Snow-white is a familiar fairy tale, there was some different parts in it. This read was interesting, Walt Disney’s version was very cute for children, but this version was more for adults. The evil stepmother tries to kill snow-white because she was jealous and vain, the evil stepmother went as far and told the hunter to bring snow-white into the woods and kill her and to return with her heart as proof. She wanted to eat her heart because she wanted the power of immortality. The queen was tricked with a wild animal’s heart instead. When the step mother found out that snow-white was indeed alive she disguised herself as an old woman, a peasant woman to trick and killed snow-white, the poisoned comb and the poisoned apple were what she used to kill her or so she taught, but snow-white had help by the seven dwarf who was her protector. I think snow- white was very kind and trusting why she believed the evil step mother disguised as the old woman.
2 thoughts on “Kathyann Myers week 14 discussion.”
Kathyann, the prompt for this week asks you to address the Bettleheim article in your discussion of “Little Snow White.” We don’t need a summary of the story because everyone in this forum has read it.
Hey Kathyann! One of the reasons I chose my observation from Bettelheim psychologically oriented reading of the story was for the reason you mentioned. Snow White allowed herself to repeatedly be tricked by stepmother. I wonder if it was because she wanted to be around someone like her, or maybe she just needed someone to talk to. There was some sort of inner desire that led her to be naive and trusting. She trusted complete strangers, the dwarfs, her disguised stepmother three times, and the prince who he woke up to. Luckily for her everything worked out in the end.