Week 4 Good vs Evil

Good vs. Evil

Snow White has been a fairy tale told as long as I can remember and one that I loved as a child. The central point of the story has always been the same for me: good vs. evil. Snow White represents the purest of the pure while the Queen represents evil. The Queen is extremely jealous of snow white’s beauty therefore plots against her to kill her so she can once again be the fairest of them all.

 (Hsu)

The story, as told by the Brother’s Grimm, is the traditional story that I remember as a child. I mostly only remember the poisonous apple but after reading of the other two ways the Queen plotted against Snow White, it was vaguely familiar. The apple is another representation of good vs. evil because the Queen made the apple in two parts; the red being poisonous and the white being pure. This was just another of her wicked ways to trick snow white and kill her so she would once again be the fairest in all the lands.

(Subaku-kun)

The theme of good vs. evil even carries on with the dwarves and the prince wanting to take snow white’s coffin back with him to his kingdom. The dwarves take pity on the prince and allow him to move snow white and in doing so the poisonous apple is dislodged from snow white’s throat and she wakes up. Again, the good deed of the dwarves trumps the evil ways of the queen.

 (Dreolin)

In most, if not all, fairytales, good trumps evil and Snow White is no different.

References

Dreolin. The Glass Coffin. 2013. Deviant Art. Web. 17 Apr. 2017.

Hsu, Martin. Fairest One of All. N.d. WonderGround Gallery. Fairtytalemood. Web. 17 Apr. 2017.

Tatar, Maria. "The Classic Fairy Tales." Gilbert, Sandra and Gubar, Susan.  Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother. New York: W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., 2017. 387-393. Print.

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Subaku-kun. Snow White's Apple. 2009. Deviant Art. Web. 17 Apr. 2017.