Disney movies and films are among some of the films that are considered to be entertainments for families. An example is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a 1937 animated film that is mainly dedicated to youngsters. Its story was initially written by the Grimm brothers. However, the Disney film with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is slightly twisted from the original story that was drafted by the Grimm brothers. The fairy tale by the Grimm's depicted Snow White as Snow Drop while the evil Queen was her real mother as opposed to Disney’s’ version that depicted the evil queen as Snow White’s stepmother (The Fine Art Diner, 2012) . Moreover, the end story by the Grimm’s showcases the wicked witch making it to the castle to attend the wedding of Snow White rather than falling off the mountains and as a punishment, the evil mother is made to dance on hot iron until she dies.
Consequently, to make the story according to children standards, Disney softened the queen’s death and additionally removed scenes of her eating the lungs and liver of her daughter who was supposed to be dead (The Fine Art Diner, 2012) . Furthermore, it was not appropriate to have young children watch a mother who badly wanted her daughter dead out of jealousy, and therefore Disney replaced the character of the evil queen with a stepmother from the one in the story written by the Grimm's. In other words, Disney tried to keep the film as close as possible to the original story but made it more suitable for view by youngsters. Moreover, it was not the 1937 Disney film that gave the seven dwarfs names but rather the 1912 Broadway play that named the dwarfs, Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick and Quee (Tatar, 2012) . However, in the film by Disney, the Seven Dwarfs were given names with which we associate with them to date and additionally give Snow White a new mission. In the Grimm brother’s story, Snow White was somehow an intruder who discovered a neat and clean cottage with seven little beds covered with white sheets. On the other hand, Disney’s version of Snow White was given a depression era work ethic who ends up cleaning a house she noticed to be occupied by seven untidy little children (The Fine Art Diner, 2012) . According to Disney, Snow white is a kindred spirit to the dwarfs who often descend to work in the mines from morning till night while maintaining cheerful intones.
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Moreover, purists of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by the Grimm brothers regard the film version of Disney as a sentimental confection (Tatar, 2012) . However, animators of Disney decided to preserve the significant engagement of the fairy tale with the fears that a child may have concerning parental persecution and abandonment while at the same time capturing adult anxieties on loss and aging (The Fine Art Diner, 2012) . This is seen after the evil queen drank the magic cocktail that she brewed. Her hair turns white, her hands gnarl with age and her voice turns into a throaty cackle and when she finally emerges from under the dark cloak she was wearing as a hunchback crone, we cannot ignore the horror of transformation of the evil queen from a beautiful woman into an old hag (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), 2013) .
Consequently, like all other classic fairy tale films such as Rumpelstiltskin, the tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is composed of the number three. The film has three queens (the mother of Snow White, the evil stepmother and Snow White), three drops of blood that drips from the hand of Snow White’s mother, three plans drawn by the evil stepmother to murder snow white and the three days of mourning Snow White’s death by the dwarfs (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), 2013) . The number three is of most significance, and the three attempts that the evil stepmother took to kill Snow White are a just-right balance that is common in classic narratives (The Fine Art Diner, 2012) . The first plan works on establishing the point of the idea; the second comes from the thwarting of the first attempt thereby leading to redoubling of the evil queen's efforts while the third end with success, a conventional method that is seen with most fantasy trilogies.
Furthermore, Snow white and the seven dwarfs being a film by Disney describes its heroine as just another young princess with black hair, red lips, skinny body, white skin and a beautiful face. Even when the evil queen asked the mirror, it described Snow White as having lips as red as the rose, hair as black as ebony and skin as white as snow. Moreover, the same characters and same scenario that are common with both Disney movies are repeated continuously throughout the film. According to the film, Snow White is another young lady princess who is waiting for her dream man to rescue her and afterward marry her. However, this 1937 film set a full-standard length animation for most Disney animated films which established a pattern for Disney heroines to follow in later films. Snow white as the princess is depicted as an innocent girl who shows femininity due to her gentleness (The Fine Art Diner, 2012) . Consequently, as a Disney girl, Snow White is seen as incomplete without a man. She needs to be rescued and after that enter the life of her prince instead of establishing her own life. This Disney idea that females are not capable of living their lives without a man by their sides is an ideology that might critically affect young girls since it emphasizes the idea that women are weak and therefore to find true happiness, they need to get married.
Additionally, as with most Disney films, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs showcase the prince as someone who always ends up marrying the love of her dreams (Interesting Literature, 2017) . In reality, it is not so since not all women marry the people they truly love. Moreover, not all women have the opportunity of getting married. In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Snow White is always longing for her man to find her. At the start of the movie, she sings “I’m wishing for the one I love to find me” (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), 2013) . Furthermore, in the entire movie, all Snow White thinks o f is her handsome prince who she will get to marry one day. However, the one question that we have to ask ourselves is the number of the prince appearances in the entire film. The prince only appears twice at the beginning of the film and the end (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), 2013) . This scenario, therefore, places us in a situation where we have to ask ourselves where the prince was during the film and why he only appeared after he knew of Snow White's tragedy. If he were sincerely her true love, then why was he not looking for Snow White the entire duration of the movie?
Consequently, what is more, ironic with the film is in the fact that the princess has to work as a housewife, a trait that is common with Disney movies such as Cinderella (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), 2013) . In the film, snow white enter the little house in the middle of the forest where she criticizes the people who live in it as untidy and dirty although she decides to clean the house even though she does not have an idea of who lives there. As some authors state “Domestic drudgery does not faze her for she is sure that a handsome owning-class chap will someday soon come and save her” (The Fine Art Diner, 2012) . This Disney scene that showcases women to be always cleaning is an advantage to young girls for it teaches them still to be organized and tidy. However, as it turns out, cleaning is mostly considered a peasant activity because Snow White always sings and smiles while working. Although cleaning is of positivity in the film, when it comes to marketing, we never see Snow White dressed in rags.
Moreover, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, parents are always absent, a trait that is common with most Disney animated films. The evil stepmother is the only parent that appears in the movie, and the seven dwarfs did not have parents and lived alone with Snow white supposing them as being orphans (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), 2013) . This scenario gives s children a lousy image in that parental absenteeism indicates to youngsters that there is no parental support, a fact that is not always true in real life. However, in doing this, Disney may want to show the autonomy of individual characters by replacing parental support with helpful dwarfs and caring animals (The Fine Art Diner, 2012) . Consequently, in the film, there is the antagonist that is played by Snow W hites evil stepmother. Although she is the powerful queen, she is ugly and not entirely appealing. She uses magic to kill Snow White and the jealousy that she has for Snow White cut the links between them and in the end, she dies. Moreover, a typical stereotype of Disney movies as seen with Snow White is that there is always a perfect ending. As Disney puts it, there is a scene where the prince has to kiss Snow White for the spell to be broken after which they live happily ever after (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), 2013) .
Disney’s film of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs may partly teach children that the world we live in is big and bad. Children are taught not to blindly trust in what strangers tell them, a fact that is showcased by Snow White’s readiness to trust what her wicked stepmother tells her. Moreover, the film teaches about finding peace and happiness while in humble environments (Interesting Literature, 2017) . However, interpretations such as these may sometimes be pointless in that fairytales are not devised to teach youngsters clear morals but to fuel their imaginations. Furthermore, they are designed to introduce children to the way stories work structurally and emotionally to bring to light global human truths through the use of narratives and characters (Interesting Literature, 2017) . They stand to teach about both evil and good as being part of our world and that death is part of life and so is love and marriage. Beauty is not a picnic as it may appear to less attractive individ uals and more importantly, jealousy and envy often eat away at people who feel them and therefore are self-destructive (Interesting Literature, 2017) . Moreover, vanity predominantly leads to unhappiness since a person will b destined always to compare themselves with others. All in all, we may find the moral value of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the fate that begot the evil queen as much as in triumph of young Snow White.
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