Snow White

Name:Ahmad Ghazaleen
Grade:8 3
Teacher:Rasha Mansour

Book:Snow White

Animation:Gustaf Tenggren and Arthur Rackham

Release:December 21, 1937

Plot:
At the beginning of the story, a queen sits sewing at an open window during a winter snowfall when she pricks her finger with her needle, causing three drops of red blood to drip onto the freshly fallen white snow on the black windowsill. Then, she says to herself, “How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony.” Sometime later, the queen gives birth to a baby daughter whom she names Snow White, but the queen dies in childbirth a short while later.A year later, Snow White’s father, the king, marries again. His new wife is very beautiful, but she is a vain and wicked woman who practices witchcraft. The new queen possesses a magic mirror, which she asks every morning, “Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?” The mirror always tells the queen that she is the fairest.

Theme:The moral of the fable “Snow White” is that selfish desire is dangerous. In this folktale, a vain and jealous Queen arranges various tricks and deceits in order to kill her stepdaughter, Snow White, whom the magic mirror declares is the most beautiful woman in the world.