Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Walt Disney: The Man Behind Mickey Mouse. Have you ever been told, you would not be able to succeed at what you have dreamed of doing? Well my friend, you are not alone. Walt Disney was told by so many people that he would not succeed, or he was told he would have a career, but it would not last very long at all. However, he proved them all wrong. Walt Disney may have ended his life on a high note of success, but he struggled all throughout his childhood, early, and adult life. Walt Disney…

Being jealous of others can become an obsession for many people and can also ruin one’s personality. The adaptations of the original story Snow White some are known as Little Snow White, Gold Tree and Silver Tree. In these stories, some characters such as the Queen and the Silver Tree show their selfish and inhumane personalities. In Little Snow White the Queen, who is the mother went insane with jealousy and decided to kill her daughter and wanted to eat her. Also in the Gold Tree and Silver…

Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ went into production in December 1879 and was a triumph in Scandinavia and Germany. It did not garner the same praise in Europe as the London productions (1889) were criticised, the subject matter was interpreted as offensive and the representation of women was viewed as harmful (Worrall). This final interaction between Nora and Torvald is crucial as it is the powerful denouement. The analysis of this scene will encompass discussions of the elements of…

“Words can lie.” It is unknown who said this quote. Mare Barrow the main character arrives at the Silver Palace, the Silvers Palace is for the people whose blood is Silver. Mare meets Cal the first silver prince and Maven the second silver prince, Mare has to marry Maven because she is the Red princesses because Mare has red blood. Maven tells Mare lies and when she finds out it is far too late, Mare and Cal then have to fight for their lives. In the novel Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, a theme…

Religion and magic are different from one another in three ways; intention, attitude, and action. According to Versnel, the intention behind magic is that it is employed to achieve concrete and mostly individual goals whereas religion focuses on intangible long-term goals which concern collective issues of society (11, 178). This can be seen when Elsa creates her ice palace golem “Marshmallow” to protect her from the outside world, this is an individual goal that solely benefits Elsa. In Elsa’s…

Snow White has become a story that is cherished for its innocent love story and how the protagonist was able to defeat the evil stepmother. However, there is much more to the story than can be perceived. In various versions of the Snow White tale, what fuels the entire story is the competition between Snow White and the stepmother. Without this female competition, there would not be any plot whatsoever and the tale would not have any purpose. The female competition is encouraged by the male…

In the retelling of Snow White called “Snow, Glass, Apples” by Neil Gaiman, the author reversed the good and evil characters of the story. The stepmother queen is now the heroine and Snow White is now this evil bloodsucking vampire. The story is in 1st person being narrated by the Queen who is afraid of Snow White which shows in the quote “I had been frozen by her, owned and dominated.” (Gaiman). The sad part of this story is how it all comes back to this quote at the end with the stepmother…

If I ever got a ticket to visit any place I wanted, I would immediately use it to travel to a site called Palooza. It was created by me when I was eight years old. At that age, I was very much into fairy tales, so I constructed like a city where fairy tales weren’t exactly legends. The only way to get into that place was through a very powerful ring. Three taps on the center of the ring and a magical portal would appear to take you to any desired location. Two taps and it would show you either…

Snow White engaged in human communication(pg 7) while she was being warned by the woodsman that her stepmother was going to have her murdered. The woodsman sent messages(pg 7) about Snow White's evil stepmother. Snow White had then decoded(pg 7) those messages and and realized the content meaning(pg 10) is that her stepmother is sinister. The channel(pg 11) in which the participants(pg 11), Snow White and the woodsman, was face-to-face. The setting(pg 10) was was in the woods and the…

In the short story “Karma,” by Jade Antoine, there is a king and queen ruling in the kingdom of Welbia. The king was repeatedly abusing the queen and the queen had to go to extreme lengths to try and stop the abuse. Queen Victoria reached out to a fairy and asked her to grant her powers so she could stop King Blake’s malevolent behavior. When she was given magic, the fairy told her if she used the magic for evil, the consequences would fall upon her unborn child. The queen went back to the…