Snow White And Brothers Grimm
When most children are young, they learn the story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs. ... The Brothers Grimm version of Snow White is more gruesome and bold than the Disney version. It begins with Snow White’s mother pricking her finger on a needle and dropping blood on the snow. She wished for a child as “white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood in the window frame” (Bell). It has Snow White’s mother dying giving birth to her and has the king remarry a beautiful woman. ... One day the queen asked her mirror the same question and it answered her with, “Queen, thou art the fairest in this hall but Snow White’s fairer than us all” (Bell). Well the queen just couldn’t take that and sent a huntsman to take Snow White into the forest and kill her, and for proof, the queen wanted her lung and liver as proof that she was dead. Well the huntsman couldn’t kill Snow White. ... The story took a Goldilocks turn when Snow White ate a little food off of each of the seven plates and drank a little from the seven cups and then laid in each of the seven beds until the last one fit her perfectly and she fell fast asleep. ... When they finally noticed Snow White in the last bed, they decided not to wake her and let her sleep till morning. ... The dwarfs knew that the evil queen would try to harm Snow White again so they told her to not let anyone in the house. The queen, who by this time had eaten what she thought was Snow White’s lung and liver, asked her mirror again who was the fairest of them all and the mirror answered this time, “Queen, thou art the fairest that I see, but over the hills, where the seven dwarfs dwell, Snow-White is still alive and well, And there is none so fair as she” (Bell). ... The hunter had betrayed her and so she set out to kill Snow White herself. ... ” and she held up a lace bodice that Snow White deeply wanted (Bell). And of course naïve Snow White let the old woman inside the house where she let the old lady lace up the bodice so tightly that it took Snow White’s breath away (Bell). ... They warned her again not to let anyone in the house, but the evil queen devised another plan and dressed herself up as another old lady with things for sale and went to the dwarfs’ house to see snow white.