Ideals of beauty
• lips red as the rose, hair black as ebony, skin white as snow
• Snow white is thin and young with very pale skin
Snow white
• Rags cannot hide her gentle grace
• lips red as the rose, hair black as ebony, skin white as snow
• Snow white is wishing for a prince to come and find her
• She is a dreamer “Im wishing for the one I love to find me today”
• Snow white tenderly looks after a baby bird
• Snow white only screams and covers her face when the huntsman tries to kill her she doesn’t defend herself
• Snow white cannot defend herself in the forest she collapses and cries
• She is quick to blame herself “I’m so ashamed of the fuss I made”
• She tries to look on the bright side by singing songs
• She’s a dreamer just drifting through life singing and playing with animals
• She needs to stay at a house she refuses to stay in the woods or build a shelter
• She knocks on the door but since no one is inside just breaks in? ummm?
• Seven untidy little children she presumes that children live there and begins cleaning the house straight away
• This immediate cleaning establishes the gender role this film is trying to convey that women are good for cooking and cleaning
• She seems delighted to clean
• Snow white is very easily pleased
• Snow white hides from the queen at the dwarfs house
• She is scared that if she is made to go home she will be killed
• She doesn’t seek help from another kingdom or anything she just hides
• She kind of mothers the dwarfs making them wash outside and telling them they won’t get a bite to eat if they don’t
• Snow white is thin and young with very pale skin
• When the dwarfs ask Snow white to tell a story she tells them about the prince she met once
• She says that she loves him even though she has literally just met him
• Snow white cooks and cleans while the dwarfs are gone
• She sings all day about her prince coming
• Snow white is kind to the peasant woman (queen)
• Snow White is stupid to let the old woman inside
The queen
• Queen has her hair pinned back
• The queen is authoritative and has power
• She is a sick kind of evil “Bring back her heart in this” (holds up a box)
• The evil queen is murderous and obsessed with beauty
• The queen is very conniving sh makes herself look old and ugly
• She is like, super committed she is willing to poison snow white through the poison apple in order to become the most beautiful one in the land
• The witch is so evil she wants Snow White to be buried alive
• The queen takes advantage of Snow Whites kindness
• The queen is conniving “This is no ordinary apple its a magical wishing apple” She plays on what she knows Snow White will take
• The evil queen is a bit of a coward she just runs away from the dwarfs, but then again it is like 7 against 1
The dwarfs
• The dwarfs want to get rich through digging diamonds
• The unclean house of the dwarfs shows that men can’t clean up after themselves or look after themselves representing that men need a women to look after them
• The dwarfs are pretty stupid and can’t figure out its just Snow white in the bed
• The dwarfs are quite potentially violent they want to kill what ever is in their bed (Snow White)
• “All females is poison they are full of wicked wiles”
• The dwarfs don’t kill snow white because she is so beautiful
• bite to eat if they don’t
• The dwarfs don’t know how to look after themselves (cooking washing e.g)
• All the dwarfs are pretty well enamoured with Snow Whites beauty and sweet behaviour and disposition
• The dwarfs refuse to bury snow white because she is too beautiful
• It’s kinda creepy how they keep her
Stereotypes
• Snow white is wishing for a prince to come and find her
• She is a dreamer “Im wishing for the one I love to find me today”
• Snow White is shy near the prince she runs away from him but listens to him serenading her.
• She comes to the window when he serenades her
• The Prince proclaims his love for her even though he has just met her
• Snow white tenderly looks after a baby bird
• Snow white only screams and covers her face when the huntsman tries to kill her she doesn’t defend herself
• Snow white cannot defend herself in the forest she collapses and cries
• She’s a dreamer just drifting through life singing and playing with animals
• This immediate cleaning establishes the gender role this film is trying to convey that women are good for cooking and cleaning
• When the dwarfs ask Snow white to tell a story she tells them about the prince she met once
• She says that she loves him even though she has literally just met him
• She sings all day about her prince coming
• Snow white is kind to the peasant woman (queen)
• The queen takes advantage of Snow Whites kindness
• Snow white is nieve and silly to believe the evil queen
• The dwarfs try to save her implying that Snow White needs the men to save her
• The prince kisses her even though he knows she’s been dead for a long time umm what?
• They all just accept that she is going to live with the Prince
• Without any questions she goes to marry the prince and live "happily ever after"
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