白雪公主

The plot
• Once upon a time, as a queen sits sewing at her window, she pricks her finger on her needle and a drop of blood falls on the snow that had fallen on her ebony window frame. As she looks at the blood on the snow, she says to herself, "Oh, how I wish that I had a daughter that had skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony".
• In the forest, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage belonging to seven dwarfs, where she rests. There, the dwarfs take pity on her, saying "If you will keep house for us, and cook, make beds, wash, sew, and knit, and keep everything clean and orderly, then you can stay with us, and you shall have everything that you want."
Characters
• The characters in Snow White appear shallow, like the characters in a fairy tale.
• Snow White • Snow White, in the version of Grimms’, is a docile
and mild girl, who is innocent but believe someone or a thing easily . But in the version of Walt Disney, she is an updated urban figure.
• In Fairy Tales and After, Roger Sale interprets components of Snow White as follows:
• She may not always have the power to make an actual change, but she can turn even the most noble and charming girl into the humblest of scullery maids. (女帮厨) By contrast to the sorceresses （女魔法师）who work behind the scenes, the stepmother remains a visible, obvious figure in fairy tales which tell the changing fortunes of heroines who have lost their biological mothers and await rescue by young princes or kings.
• The Prince comes into her world only when she is unconscious, before she can lay claim to her birth-right as a Princess. He is the man that saves her life from an orphan.
• “ One might suspect that female beauty was really a larger issue. The Snow White syndrome (综合征) has two parts: the envier—the queen, and the person envied—Snow White. The relationship between the two leads to the fear of being envied, the fear that if you’re too successful, you won’t be liked. Women may recognize a thousand different types of beauty without having to make them compete.”
• While doing so, they stumble on some bushes and the movement caused the piece of poisoned apple to dislodge from Snow White's throat, awakening her. The prince then declares his love for her and soon a wedding was planned.
• Three times the Queen disguises herself and visits the dwarfs' cottage while they are away during the day, trying to kill Snow White. … She eats the apple eagerly and immediately falls into a deep stupor. When the dwarfs find her, they cannot revive her, and they place her in a glass coffin, assuming that she is dead.
• Soon after, the new king takes a new wife, who is beautiful but very vain. She possesses a magical mirror that answers any question, to whom she often asks: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who in the land is fairest of all?"
• The queen becomes jealous, and orders a huntsman to take Snow White into the woods to be killed. She demands that the huntsman return with Snow White's heart as proof of her killing. The huntsman takes Snow White into the forest, but after raising his knife to stab her, he finds himself unable to kill her.
• Snow White (in Low German Schneewittchen; in High German Schneeweißchen) is the title character of a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known versi源自文库n being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm. The German version features elements such as the magic mirror and the seven dwarfs, who were first given individual names in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
• Stepmother
• The stepmother hates her step-child because of her wondrous beauty, and ill-treats her whenever she can. She is the villain in the story.
• Time passes, and a prince traveling through the land and sees Snow White strode in her coffin. The prince is enchanted by her beauty and instantly falls in love with her. He begs the dwarfs to let him have the coffin. The prince's servants carry the coffin away.
• As punishment for her wicked ways, a pair of heated iron shoes are brought forth with tongs and placed before the Queen. She is then forced to step into these and dance until she falls down dead.
• Men • Snow Whites‘ father： He is an indolent father
because he utterly fails to protect his child from the murderous hands of his new wife.
The father is an artless spouse, whose only serious defect appears to be a lack of discrimination in choosing a marriage partner. In fairy tales, the fathers of heroines may appear to be passive to a fault, yet they never once take the lead in abandoning their children or in treating them like servants.
• Maria Tatar, in From Nags to Witches, comments on the stepmother as follows:
• In most German tales, stepmother are considered as main evil witch and the stepdaughter is the innocent and patient sufferer. If the stepmother of these tales is not literal a witch, she holds qualities that place her firmly in the group of monsters and evils. In the Icelandic fairy tales, stepmother is also an alien intruder who disturbs the harmony in the family.