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| Wiki: Snow White (Disney) The way she has her hands together is weird, I just realized after all these years of not even thinking about it at all. I tried it, it's the most awkward way to hold your hands together. You should try it, too. It's not natural. And why does Snow White ALWAYS have makeup on? |
But that's a child's tale!
Do you know the real story of Snow White? The real DARK story of Snow White?
So I could just copy-paste the whole story FROM THIS WEBSITE (Grimm 053 pitt.edu) or just tell it to you very simply using some quotes and stuffs. Or give you the Wikipedia page for Snow White, which do you want?
As I (don't) always say, simple is best so here is a Basically This Is What Happened to Poor Snow White story.
Setting: Winter time somewhere in a castle. It is snowing and there is a queen sewing in her window.
The queen is sewing in her window. The window's frame is made of black ebony wood. Oops, she pricks her finger and a drop of blood drips on the snow.
(This is crazy but) she thinks it is so beautiful that she wants a child "as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood in [the window] frame" (Grimm 053 pitt.edu). So she gets a child that is "as white as snow" (beyond pale), "as red as blood" (creepy if I might say), "and as black as the wood in this frame" (the queen is obsessed with windows) and is called Little Snow-White. But the queen dies at childbirth (that's what happened a lot in the olden days).
Then, the king remarries a year later (a bit too soon maybe?) and the second wife is a meanie and a narcissist. She hates all people that might be more beautiful than her and asks her magic mirror (who is always truthful) and asks, as Snow-White gets older,
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall
Who in this land is fairest of all?" (Grimm 053 pitt.edu)
She'd ask it every single morning.
The mirror would always answer
"You, my queen, are fairest of all." (Grimm 053 pitt.edu)
But once Snow-White became older,
"You, my queen, are fair, it is true.
But Snow White is a thousand times fairer than you"
And at this time Snow White was supposedly 7 years old (Grimm 053 pitt.edu). (I can't remember but somewhere I heard that Snow White was only 14 years old.)
Jealous queen got jealous and full of hatred she ordered her huntsman to kill the girl in the forest (without doing it herself yet she eventually tries to several ways later).
The huntsman is just a huntsman and he lets her go and lets her run away because he does not want to kill her (she is too beautiful) and he believes the forest animals would kill her anyway. Instead he kills a boar and cuts out it's lungs and liver and gives it to the queen to eat. Queen believes she is eating Snow-White's lungs and liver (cannibalism, eesh) and enjoys it immensely.
Then Snow-White runs around in the forest going as far away as she can. She finds a little house where everything is little and there seems to be seven of everything. There is a little bit of food on the plates and a little bit of wine in the cups and Snow-White eats it all up (even though she is underage, she still drinks wine, or maybe it didn't matter how old you were back then.)
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| Wiki: Snow White Snow-White in the midst of running through the forest. Here, she has a crown when in the Disney version, she only wears a red headband-like ribbon thing. By the way, how old does this girl look to you? I say 14 is more accurate for this picture than 7. Otherwise she is an extremely tall 7-year-old. |
Then the dwarfs come home.
(I just had to take this part from the website because it is almost like Goldie Locks and the Three Bears)
The first one said, "Who has been sitting in my chair?" The second one, "Who has been eating from my plate?" The third one, "Who has been eating my bread?" The fourth one, "Who has been eating my vegetables?" The fifth one, "Who has been sticking with my fork?" The sixth one, "Who has been cutting with my knife?" The seventh one, "Who has been drinking from my mug?" Then the first one saw a that there was a little imprint in his bed, and said, "Who stepped on my bed?" The others came running up and shouted, "Someone has been lying in mine as well." But the seventh one, looking at his bed, found Snow-White lying there asleep. The seven dwarfs all came running up, and they cried out with amazement. They fetched their seven candles and shone the light on Snow-White. "Oh good heaven! Oh good heaven!" they cried. "This child is so beautiful!" They were so happy, that they did not wake her up, but let her continue to sleep there in the bed. The seventh dwarf had to sleep with his companions, one hour with each one (GOOD GRIEF why go through all THAT trouble!), and then the night was done.
(Grimm 053 pitt.edu).
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| Wiki: Snow White This is where the dwarfs find Snow-White asleep. Good grief the creep-factor of this picture! And apparently, not all the dwarfs are the same size according to the Brothers Grimm and were only given names in the Disney version. |
Snow-White wakes up, they all introduce each other kindly, and then when the dwarfs find out she is hiding from her stepmother who wants to kill her they tell her she can stay only if she becomes their maid and keeps everything in order. She can also get what she wants (apparently).
The dwarfs work. They go into the mountains and mine for ore and gold and return in the evening to eat (Grimm 053 pitt.edu).
The dwarfs are nice and kind that they warn her to not let anyone in the house because her stepmother will probably find out somehow that she is here.
And of course the person (or rather THING) that tells the queen is the truthful mirror.
The first thing the queen does is disguise as a peddler woman by coloring her face (I thought she used spells but I guess not and for some reason she can make herself look very old, too).
Her first attempt was to sell lace to the unsuspecting girl and lace her up and choke her.
Dwarfs come home to find her still like she was dead and cut the lace so she comes back to life. They tell her the old peddler woman was her stepmother and tell her again (good grief, listen child) not to let anyone in while they are away.
The mirror tells the queen again, that Snow-White, living in the mountains with the dwarfs, is still more beautiful than her (kind of like the enemy that doesn't die no matter how many times you poke it with your hopeless sword in some RPG game).
The next time the queen disguises as a different old woman and tries to sell a comb to Snow-White. Snow-White at first tells her she cannot let anyone in but likes the comb so much she lets the old woman in to have her hair combed by this POISONED COMB (a wonder it didn't poison the queen who was holding the comb).
The poison sinks into Snow-White's hair and makes her go unconscious (and somehow the comb is just sitting there in her hair).
The dwarfs come back and discover this comb and know it is definitely the stepmother. They pull the comb out and Snow-White is (somehow) alive again.
They tell her AGAIN not to open the door to anyone and at the same time the queen finds out that the girl is STILL alive (so frustrating).
The queen is, indeed, very frustrated and angry that she goes to her secret room and makes a incredibly poisoned apple which looks so very delicious. But one teeny weeny bite would kill anyone. Then she disguises herself as a peasant woman (enough with the peddler women, the girl might have caught on) and goes to the little house again.
Snow-White refuses to let her in and says the dwarfs have forbidden her to. She also refuses to take the apple. The peasant woman queen tells her she'll just give her one.
"No."
"Here, I'll eat the white half, you eat the red half, it is not poisoned, don't worry child." Somehow only the red half was poisoned (the queen is very sneaky here).
Snow-White sees the woman eating half of the apple and really really wants it now. Then she takes the other half, eats a teeny weeny bite, and falls down dead.
The mirror tells the queen that the queen is the most beautiful. The queen is satisfied.
The dwarfs find the girl dead. They took off her laces, they combed and washed her hair, they washed her in water and (for some reason) wine but the girl was really dead.
They didn't want to bury the almost still alive-looking Snow-White in the ground so they had a see-through coffin made with her name in golden letters. Then the seven dwarfs mourned her and "cried for three days" (Grimm 053, pitt.edu). The animals came to mourn her, too. The owl came first, then a raven, and then a dove.
(The story says,) she laid there for a "long, long time, and she did not decay, but looked like she was asleep, for she was still" (Grimm 053, pitt.edu) as beautiful as though she was alive.
(This next part you gotta read. Suddenly a Prince comes in falls in love with the dead body.)
Now it came to pass that a prince entered these woods and happened onto the dwarfs' house, where he sought shelter for the night. He saw the coffin on the mountain with beautiful Snow-White in it, and he read what was written on it with golden letters. Then he said to the dwarfs, "Let me have the coffin. I will give you anything you want for it." But the dwarfs answered, "We will not sell it for all the gold in the world." Then he said, "Then give it to me, for I cannot live without being able to see Snow-White. I will honor her and respect her as my most cherished one." As he thus spoke, the good dwarfs felt pity for him and gave him the coffin. The prince had his servants carry it away on their shoulders. But then it happened that one of them stumbled on some brush, and this dislodged from Snow-White's throat the piece of poisoned apple that she had bitten off. Not long afterward she opened her eyes, lifted the lid from her coffin, sat up, and was alive again. "Good heavens, where am I?" she cried out. The prince said joyfully, "You are with me." He told her what had happened, and then said, "I love you more than anything else in the world. Come with me to my father's castle. You shall become my wife." (Grimm 053 pitt.edu)
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| Wiki: Snow White When the prince wakes Snow White, or rather, when the servants trip and the piece of apple, which apparently Snow-White died before swallowing it all the way, is dislodged from her throat. The servants are unexpected heroes and the prince is a necrophiliac. |
(Sounds a bit like Hans and Anna in Frozen. Getting married to love at first site without even really knowing what kind of person the other person is).
Snow-White falls in love there and then (that was quick!) and goes to marry him and even invites her stepmother to the wedding feast.
As her normal everyday thing, the queen was asking her mirror if she was the most beautiful. But the truthful mirror tells her that the young queen is more beautiful (I guess the Prince's father was dead?) And the queen is so frightened to find that Snow-White is alive but she goes to the wedding anyway and finds that yes, it is true.
(Somehow) everyone finds out that the queen was evil and tried to kill Snow-White.
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| Wiki: Snow White The queen at the wedding. Wait, is that old guy, who is next to the prince, the King? Then why is Snow-White called the "young queen" by the evil stepmother's magic mirror? Is the magic mirror implying that the King will soon die? Or is that just the royal family's elderly consultant or something? |
"As a punishment for her attempted murders, a pair of glowing-hot iron shoes are brought forth with tongs and placed before the Queen. She is forced to step into the burning shoes and to dance until she drops dead" (Wiki: Snow White).
(Kind of sounds like Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes" where the girl basically dances until her feet are chopped off and finally she dies at the hands of the angels. Her amputated legs dancing in the shoes, torment her. Oh how gruesome.)
(And supposedly Snow-White lives happily ever after. And I hope the dwarfs were invited to the wedding wearing little tuxedos or something.)
The End (Ah, yes, such a simply complex story with lots of simply complicated loopholes)
Now you know the dark story of Snow White. I think the punishment is a bit too...idk. Why can't they just put her under the guillotine? And how do you drop dead from severe burns in your feet? Or do they mean "drop dead" as in "get so extremely tired that you fall down like a dead person"?
There seems to be so many loopholes in these fairytales. Like, who da heck is this prince all of a sudden. In the Disney version they show a prince in the beginning of the scene when Snow White is singing a wish into a well and then runs away shyly when the prince comes to talk to her.
Then it KIND OF in a really strained sense, makes sense if they DO fall in love in the end.
Although, necrophilia...erm, yeah.
The prince in the Disney version DOES essentially kiss a DEAD GIRL on the lips.
Haha, yeah :P
Well, on that weird awkward note, hope you enjoyed it!
See ya later, alligators! :D
P. S.
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| Wiki: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film) |
That's where I heard Snow-White might have been 14! If she didn't decay after she died (like it is seemingly implied in the original and maybe a little in the Disney version), it would still mean she married the prince at age 7 (Grimm Tales) or age 14. Eitherway you go about it, it still has a high creep-factor.
Sheesh :/
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