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Essay / The interconnection of internal and external beauty in Snow White
The Brothers Grimm tale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, uses the duality of hatred and good to convey the idea that being a person of good morals and spirit triumphs over being. a person who is hateful and eager to harm the lives of others. Characterizing the protagonist of the story with the name Snow White already shows the reader that this central character will have a pure heart and good intentions for others. The use of symbols such as Snow White's name is seen throughout this play as a method of conveying the message that those who choose to turn to hatred rather than a morality that allows for good- Being from others will guarantee the experience of some sort of fate. Symbols prevalent throughout history include the use of the color white as a means of characterizing all things clean, pure and good, the symbol of darkness and everything around it as having to do with fear, hatred and fate, as well as the symbols of the animals that watch over Snow White's coffin represent both what she lacks and what she is made of. Grimms' extensive use of symbolism as a tool to convey the messages of the story shows the audience that nothing was placed in the story without a purpose, that every color, animal, and movement of Snow White has a certain meaning for history. himself. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an Original Essay The title and protagonist of the story named Snow White is an immediate use of symbolism as a way to convey a message of purity before even reading the story itself. The story is preceded by the reasoning behind the name Snow White. His mother declared: “Oh, if you had a child white as snow, red as blood and black as the wood of the embroidery frame! (KHM 53), before the birth of her child, shows that her name will be a symbol of the things her mother encountered in her life before her arrival. As all good things eventually come to an end, the Queen's death came shortly after the birth of her baby, born "...with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as red as black as ebony, and her name was Snow White” (KHM 53), just like how she thought her child would be born. The death of one's mother and her replacement by the entry of the vain, beauty-obsessed new stepmother symbolizes the rapid ability of a situation of goodness and purity to turn into one filled with hatred and causing spell difficult. Throughout the story, the queen stepmother who must constantly turn to her mirror for validation shows how she covers her self-hatred with a constant desire for an outside source to tell her how beautiful she is, to disguise it from the destruction that hatred causes. inside her. Instead of seeing Snow White as a good-hearted, joyful girl, wanting the good and respect of all the girls she is, the stepmother, the queen, sees her as a miserable person who deserves to die because of his extreme jealousy towards the princess. The comparison of the "fairness" of the princess and the queen-stepmother also relates to the fact that her name is Snow White, because the word "fair" also refers to a light, almost white pigmentation of the skin, not making that reinforcing the fact that Snow White's skin is so pale is a symbol of her innocence in purity of heart being a symbol of her inner beauty, as well as her outer beauty that the Queen so envies. Another example in history where beauty and the fair exterior ofSnow White shows that she is also a person of a righteous interior is one where the dwarves immediately assumed that she was not an intruder or a person with bad intentions when they found her in their house and l have authorized. she stayed, based solely on their initial assessment of her, which revolved around admiration of her beauty. The great shock that the Queen suffers when the mirror tells her "But Snow White is more beautiful than you" (KMH53), uses the right word in the context of external beauty, which coincides with Snow White's inner beauty and his down-to-earth personality. The immediate turn of his skin to a shade of yellow/green shows how skin color throughout this story is yet another symbol of good and evil. The symbol of the stepmother Queen's skin transforming into a yellow/green color when she discovers Snow. White is more "right" in terms of beauty (value in the Queen's eyes) and shows the physical transformation the Queen undergoes as she begins to resemble a person of hatred rather than good. Immediately, this symbol of darkness, the color green of the queen, rather than the white of the princess, appears to the reader of the story as a symbol of jealousy. The fact that the Huntsman was unable to kill Snow White and ended up leaving her to fend for herself in the woods shows how her kind heart, beautiful beauty, and concern for others ended up saving her life instead of help him in his fate. Another symbol of darkness representing objects of fear, hatred and distress are the woods themselves. Snow White's experience in the woods after the Huntsman abandoned her (after deciding not to kill her according to the Queen's wishes) was defined as: "Now when the poor child found herself all alone in the wild woods, she felt full of terror, even if from the leaves of the trees, and she did not know what to do with fear” (KHM 53). Snow White being a victim of the unknown, she felt unnecessary fear, which could have been avoided if the queen was not a person filled with jealousy and, through that, the desire to bring about Snow White's fate. The fact that Snow White was able to stumble upon the house of the Seven Dwarfs and seek refuge in a place that seemed like a safe haven (compared to the terror she encountered in the woods), shows that Snow White was able to avoid death and imminent dangers. plight in the woods because she is a good person rather than a person of hatred. Although Snow White endured three situations in which the queen attempted to poison her to death, with the help of the dwarves and then the prince, she managed to get out (making it, alive, well). health and married to a prince). who appreciates her inner beauty and good heart as well as her outer beauty), she had to overcome situations of possible distress, all of which were characterized by traits of darkness as well as frightening elements due to the unknown. to watch over Snow White's transparent coffin after her presumed death following the Queen's third attempt at poisoning are symbolic of the characteristics and characteristics that make up Snow White's character, as well as those that she lacks. The owl, the raven and the dove are all red, black and white colored birds, which could relate to the symbolism of the red lips and blood, white/light complexion and black hair of the protagonist herself. The owls, being birds of wisdom, symbolize Snow White's lack of wisdom in her constant predicament of trusting the characters the Evil Queen embodies in her attempts to kill Snow White. Although Snow White tells the evil characters about the old peasant woman and..