Red Queen

noble woman and man. As Laila paced to get to the queens room she over hear, “Heard there is roast duck, and they are going to sever warm bread with butter.” Than “Butter! Blah. I like jam, strawberry or apricot is my favorite!” Laila rounded the corner to see all the ladies-in-wait outside. Looking to one of the lady's-in-wait, who was also the oldest. “What is happening?” asked Laila. “Oh!…

As one of the most famous Disney villains, the Evil Queen from the well-known Snow White fairytale is not only known for her jealousy towards the innocent and pure Snow White, but also her wicked actions as a result of her hatred for her step-daughter. From simple deception to murder and then later dark magic, it seems that the Evil Queen knows no bounds when it comes to how far she is willing to go in order to reach her ultimate goal: becoming the fairest of them all. By using both the…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth” (NGA, web) (May, 1). Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

he states that it is Snow White that will become the fairest of them all. The first time this occurs is when the young girl turned seven years old and the mirror changes what it had always stated. This time when it asks the question, it says, “My queen, you’re the fairest one here, but Snow White is a thousand times more fair than you” (Grimm). The moment the mirror utters those words, the competition between the stepmother and Snow White begins. Before, the stepmother never viewed the young…

In the Grimm’s Snow White tale, a queen wishes for a daughter that is “as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood” (Little Snow White). However, upon her daughter’s birth, the queen dies and her daughter is left to an atrocious step mother who is obsessed with being the most beautiful female in the land and once a magic mirror proclaimed that Snow White is the most beautiful in the land, the evil stepmother became incredibly envious, ordering a huntsman to murder Snow White.…

born on Dia de Los Muertos, a holiday to celebrate all those who have passed to the afterlife. Rosita is like no other princesses there has ever been. She’s beautiful,charismatic, funny, outgoing, she’s the perfect princess. Rosita’s had to become a queen at young age since her parents had passed away. They were murder on the day of the dead. Rosita’s evil aunt Martha wants to take the kingdom away from Rosita and she’ll do anything to have the kingdom. Martha is part evil witch but nobody…

cunning, ruthless and power Hungary wife who just wants to be queen and devises a heinous plan with her husband to gain the royal crown after learning about a prophecy that her husband will be king one day. This is comparable to The Evil Queen in the fairy tale Snow White who is a vindictive stepmother who is obsessed with being "the fairest in the land" her step daughter Snow White makes her zealous of her beauty title, so the Queen thinks of several plans to kill Snow White to gain that title…

recognized. What perhaps not many know is that many of Disney’s stories like the Little Mermaid or Frozen, have an origin; a foundation that can have different versions. For example, Han Christian Anderson wrote both the “Little Mermaid” and the “Snow Queen” (the basis of Frozen). Both of these stories are considered “the one true story” when in fact they have different origins like any other fairytale. “Snow White” for instance is a classic fairytale, one that many people can recall easily,…

the 78 pieces consisted of eight Kings, eight Queens, sixteen bishops, fifteen knights, nineteen pawns and twelve rooks. The rooks in particular show almost a comedic side of the chess pieces, with solders called berserkers with wide expressive eyes biting at their shields. The variation found between the pieces show that these chess pieces likely originated from about 5 different sets. Some of the pieces also show signs of having being colored red to differentiate them in the game from the…

Archetypes are elements of certain emotional complexes found in the unconscious minds of all human beings, charged with the potential for good and evil. This very theory is depicted in literature which expression and form pertain formal patterns of meanings from dreams, myths, and legends. A theory that comes up in stories that we read or movies that we have seen highlights the components of a good tale through the use of character development, setting, and moral lesson. Critics and proponents…