Greed In Little Snow White

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Having studied how the deadly sins find their reflection in the Grimm’s fairy tales, and having found the moral of the story for the various fairy tales, we may briefly summarize our findings. In Little Snow White, the queen who focuses too much on physical appearances and comparing herself to others results to wrath in order to achieve her desire and hence shows the danger of pride and envy. In The Fisherman and his wife, greed reveals it’s self in the fisherman’s wife who cannot stop wanting more, never being satisfied with was she receives and in the end loses it all, showing that greed cannot ever be satisfied. Two children in Hansel and Gretel trust a stranger in order to obtain food and almost end up being her main course. Cinderella

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