How Is Snow White A Vividly Ambiguous Character

Everyone knows that when the queen discovers that Snow White’s beauty is greater than hers, she asks the huntsman to kill her. Finally, we all know that the dwarves take care of her until her death, at which point the prince comes to the rescue and awakens her with a kiss. These are all elements of the story that we come to expect when we hear the name Snow White.

Mattie resembles the fairytale Snow White in ways such as black hair, white skin, and red cheeks. There is no happy ending in the book with Mattie and Ethan, but in the movie, snow white, whom Mattie is described as, gets a true loves kiss by her prince Ethan and they live happily ever after together. In the book, “Ethan focuses his attention on Mattie silver, a girl wearing a cherry colored scarf and dancing with Denis Eady” (Wharton 1). Snow white is identified with the color red and so is Mattie by her red scarf and red

Snow White wears her recognizable blue and yellow dress with a puffy shoulder sleeves and lace. She attempts to show her maturity by modifying the dress to be tight fitting and short in length, even showing off parts of her black lace bra with the low neckline. Snow White is attempting to embrace her sexuality by appealing to men, although she is misrepresenting herself because she looks promiscuous. In the modern world, she would possibly be harassed because of her appearance, and she would be negatively looked

Though this could be explained away by luck or coincidence seems magical since most cannot simply request a child possess specific features. Then when the dear child is seven years old she begins to outshine the beauty of her stepmother who employs a hunter to kill the child. This huntsman though reluctant almost kills the young girl until she speaks; overcome by her beauty and innocence the huntsman cannot kill her and lets her escape (84). This again could be explained away as him simply having a soft spot for the beautiful child. Next she meets the seven dwarfs whose house she invades, whose food she steals, and whose beds she uninvited sleeps in, yet after seeing her face they invite to live with and by supported by them in exchange for some simple housework (85). Finally, after being poisoned by an apple and lane to rest in a glass coffin, Snow White is spotted by a traveling prince who is so enchanted by her beauty that he convinces the dwarfs to let him take her with him so that he might look upon her face always. And when the apple is jostled from her throat he professes his love to a girl he has only ever seen (89). Not only is her birth enchanted but her beauty appears to be as well. The older she gets the more people follow and obey her simply by looking at her. She enchants them. Her beauty is so magical that she, maybe unintentionally, controls the actions of those around her. This means that she not only saves herself from the

The film “Snow White and the Huntsman” depicts the journey between the two main characters Snow White and Ravenna the evil Queen. Snow White, who is played by Kristen Stewart for majority of the film, has been locked in her slain father's castle for years. The character is imprisoned by her father’s evil second wife played by Charlize Theron, whose now queen. The Queen also lives in fear of losing of her young appearance and uses the blood of virgins to restore it. She tests the success of this with the well-known mirror on the wall. When the magic mirror reveals that Snow White is the source of her immortality, the queen seeks to kill Snow White. In “Snow White and the Huntsman” many patterns are used like the camera shots of the film, lighting and color. The pattern of camera shots is seen throughout the movie using close ups shots and wide range shots. For example, when Snow White fled from the castle and is chased by the Queen’s horsemen into the Dark Forest, there are close up shots of medieval like armor enforcing the idea that the film is not in modern day and the action of the film will be done with weapons like swords and axes. Close up shots of Snow White and Ravenna dictates who is in power and who is not. The shots show Snow White wearing peasant’s clothing, whereas the Queen wears jewelry, expensive clothes and a crown. Wide range shots are shown in film with vast plains, castles and battles’ giving a sense of realism to the setting. Lighting is another pattern

This image of Snow White stands out as a stark contrast to the dark forest. Her pale skin and light yellow skirt have a glow about them that look ethereal against the shadows. The color of her skirt continues through the image in the ground beneath her feet with much darker shading. This is the tiniest hint of moonlight breaking through the canopy of treetops. Her stance is that of movement. Even though the image shows her standing still, the swirl of her skirt, her raised arm, and the tilt of her head and flow of her hair shows she is in flight. The leaves floating in mid-air, above her head also help to show movement. Her fear is shown in her cowering at the life that is given to the tree. The tree becomes the embodiment of a nightmare. Sharp claws reaching are highlighted to engage the focus of the viewer. Once engaged, following the line of highlights towards the tree is a surprise in pale green. There is a face of a monster with menacing teeth open and ready devour the young innocent in front of him. His pale green spreads out through his branches gaining darker hues and shades as it moves through the image giving him the monstrous look he needs to be scary. His roots are shown in the moonlight so that they appear to be coming out of the ground to capture her and take her into the depths of the

Trina Schart Hyman reiterates this point in her analysis of story, particularly in examining the Queen, where the ?only power was her beauty. She didn?t think about [Snow White] as a person. She hated only what Snow White symbolized, which was youth and the power and beauty of youth? (Haase, 2003).

Thesis: The story of “The Snow Child” is expressed in a pithy, compact structure that does not include the complex additions of the Grimm version, and is delivered in a way that reduces the characters to mere sketches and shadows of their original selves, which all work to shine a light on the messages and key features hidden in the original tale of Snow White.

Once again Snow White is saved not by her actions or words, but by her looks alone.

Snow White was kind to the Wicked Queen. She did not wish any evil on her even after she sent her in the woods to die. Snow White only wished for the love of her step mother.

In “Little Snow White” by Germany, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm, there is a Queen who becomes jealous of her seven-year-old daughter. She envied her daughter’s beauty and sends a huntsman to kill Snow White. Snow White is then all alone and unable to care for herself and becomes dependent of the Seven Dwarfs. Although she is the main character, she is also the weakest character in the story. In Fables, we encounter a very different Snow White. Here Snow White oversees the town, Fabletown. Unlike the original fairytale story, there are no Dwarfs looking after her. She doesn’t need a Prince to come to her rescue because she is the hero in her own right. Her fierceness makes her a strong female who embodies power. Unlike the Little Snow White, in Fables Snow White is the head in charge, she’s independent, and bold.

Snow White (or Mary-Margaret, as she’s known in Storybrooke), played by Ginnifer Goodwin, is not just the beautiful princess we all assume she is. In fact, she’s as far from her Brothers Grimm character as she could possibly be. She goes from showing only hints of to outright exhibitions of wicked awesomeness as her story progresses. She is exceptionally skilled with a bow and arrow, and puts an arrow through the eye of an ogre when it threatens the life of her daughter Emma (“Lady of the Lake” S2E3). She is level-headed and extremely resourceful under pressure, like when she used an aerosol can and a lighter to create a makeshift flamethrower to protect her family form a demon soul-sucker (“Broken” S2E1).

Snow White starts off with a lonely queen who sat sewing by her window one mid-winter night. She pricked her finger and seeing the blood so red made her wish for a child who has cheeks as red as blood, her

She always focuses on inward obsessively studying self-images and looking for a more perfect self-narcissism. Since Snow white resembles her biological mother, she also represents the ideal of contemplative purity as the authors of the reading, “Snow white and her wicked stepmother,” states “Snow White is not only a child, but childlike, docile, submissive, and the heroin of a life that has no story,” (Gilbert and Gubar, 293) while the queen represents a woman of almost infinite creative

Over the years, Snow White’s story has been told in numerous different versions then its original version in 1812 by the Grimm Brothers. The main basis of the story has remained the same. Only a few minor tweaks to the story have changed. The three versions of the story that are going to be analyzed are the original story “Little Snow White” by the Brothers Grimm, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” by Disney, and “Mirror, Mirror” by Disney also. They each were created in very different times and the original story has changed over the years to appeal to the audience of that time. No matter how many versions there are Snow White is considered, one of the most cherished fairy tales of all time. They each use different methods to get their