Beauty standards and domestic roles are taught to women and young girls through the media every day, and these lessons have been taught for a long time. The Grimm Brother’s fairy tale “Snow White”, written in 1812, helped to begin these lessons. In today’s society, “the media focuses almost exclusively on women’s youth, beauty, and sexuality paying little to no attention to their intelligence, talents or accomplishments” (McCormick). Society’s lack of paying attention to intelligence, talents and accomplishes allows the ideals of beauty to constantly remind young girls what they must look like in order to be beautiful. In the Grimm Brothers’ “Snow White” the audience is taught, just like in the media, that in order for women to be happy they must be absolutely beautiful, and
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This is a bad message to communicate because it teaches the devaluation of women to the audience, and boys learn that they are superior to girls.
The message conveyed to girls in “Snow White” is that being the most beautiful is of utmost importance in finding a man so that they as females can be happy. When Snow White was living in the forest, Snow White’s stepmother, the queen, repeatedly asked the mirror on the wall who was the most beautiful in the land but, “as long as [the queen] was not the most beautiful in the entire land her envy would give her no rest” (Grimm). The queen’s envy of Snow White’s beauty caused her to commit vicious acts toward Snow White, including attempted murder. The queen first tried to kill her by lacing a dress tightly, the second time she poisoned a comb, and finally gave Snow White a poisoned apple which got launched in Snow White’s throat. Each attempt did not work because the dwarves came home and revived Snow White, except they were unsuccessful the last time. The idea of being the most beautiful in this fairy tale teaches the audience that if you are not the most beautiful, you are not wanted, but if you are the most
This is a bad message to communicate because it teaches the devaluation of women to the audience, and boys learn that they are superior to girls.
The message conveyed to girls in “Snow White” is that being the most beautiful is of utmost importance in finding a man so that they as females can be happy. When Snow White was living in the forest, Snow White’s stepmother, the queen, repeatedly asked the mirror on the wall who was the most beautiful in the land but, “as long as [the queen] was not the most beautiful in the entire land her envy would give her no rest” (Grimm). The queen’s envy of Snow White’s beauty caused her to commit vicious acts toward Snow White, including attempted murder. The queen first tried to kill her by lacing a dress tightly, the second time she poisoned a comb, and finally gave Snow White a poisoned apple which got launched in Snow White’s throat. Each attempt did not work because the dwarves came home and revived Snow White, except they were unsuccessful the last time. The idea of being the most beautiful in this fairy tale teaches the audience that if you are not the most beautiful, you are not wanted, but if you are the most