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Grimm Brother's 'Little Snow White'
 
 
 
 

The Queen looks out the black window frame at the white snow as 3 drops of blood fall from her pricked finger.  It is at that moment she wants a daughter with a complexion as white as snow, cheeks as red as blood and hair as black as the window frame.  Her wish inevitably comes true, but she dies in child birth.  Her father later remarries to a vein Queen.  She has a magic mirror and the day that it tells her that Snow White is more beautiful than her, she orders the Huntsman to kill Snow White and return with her lung and liver.  The Huntsman felt sorry for Snow White and instead returned to the Queen with the lung and liver of a boar, which she then ate.  Meanwhile, Snow White comes across the small house of the Dwarfs in the forest.  When the Dwarfs arrive home from work, they agree she can stay if she does all of the housework.  When the Queen asks the mirror again who is the fairest in the land, she learns that Snow White is still alive.  She then has three trys at killing Snow White herself.  Firstly the Queen dresses as a peddler and laces Snow White so tight that she loses her breath and faints.  When the Dwarves come home later, they find her in the ground and revive her.  The second time the Queen made a poisonous comb and dresses in the disguise of an old woman.  The Queen sells the poisonous comb to Snow White and then combs her hair, and she drops to the floor.  The Dwarfs once again come home and pulled out the comb and saved her.  Lastly the Queen dresses up and convinces Snow White to eat a poisoned apple.  She is dead but shows no signs of decomposing.  The Dwarfs don’t want to burry her in a dark hole underground so they put her in a glass coffin on the top of a hill.  Later the prince came into the forest and asked the Dwarfs if he could have Snow White.  After discussion the Dwarfs gave in and the Prince’s servants carried the coffin away.  But as one trips, a piece of poison apple falls out of Snow White’s mouth and is alive once again.  The Queen is forced to dance to her death in red-hot shoes.

As the Grimm Brothers collected their Fairy Tales from villages throughout Germany, they have not changed them to be more suited for a younger audience as Disney has done. In the Grimm version of Snow White the story has psychological messages by including physical and violent scenes between the Queen and Snow White. There is the element of canabalism when the Queen eats what she thinks is Snow White's lung and liver. This element iis left out in disney's version, as is the Queen's more horrifying death at the end of the Grimm's Snow White.