Lauren Kircher 29 September 2019 Snow White Comparison In the Grimms' version of the original tale of Snow White, the Queen tells the huntsman to bring her the heart and lungs of the child for her to eat. The Queen also has to try and kill Snow White three separate times, with lace, a comb, and finally with the poisoned apple. Snow White becomes victim to the poison apple and is later woken when her coffin is being carried away for the prince and it jolts the apple out of her throat. In the Disney version it is only asked that Snow White to be killed. There's no explicit mention of cannibalism. The only method that the Queen uses in this version is the poisoned apple. Snow White is later "saved" by a prince who comes and kisses her awake. Disney left out the most gruesome aspects of the tale and created it to have a more kid-friendly storyline. Disney contaminates all the fairy tales for their directed audience, children and their parents. No parents would let the
Lauren Kircher 22 September 2019 In Cinderella the "rags to riches" narrative is unrealistic as is magic of course. Cinderella is aided by her mother through various figures and receives gifts through magic. In reality no one can reach success or riches by magic since fairytale magic doesn't exist in real life. As much as I wish it did exist it does not. Another more feasible way some people reach riches is marriage. The most common example that comes to mind would be arranged marriages. The stigma around arranged marriage is often negative but, in a few cases there are happy arranged marriages. Arranged marriages are also heavily prevalent in fairytales. For example, in Sleeping Beauty Aurora is meant to marry the prince when she is 16 years old and it's decided when she is a baby. In Cinderella she doesn't even know her prince before hand and still marries him. In today's world success comes from connections, hard work, and accountability in the work p