Womanhood or motherhood or old age. It is pretty fucking lonely, my friends.

The 7 dwarves not being able to bear Snow White’s death choose a crystal coffin for her and it si there that the prince finds her. Away from the children, an object of desire who desires nothing. It is awful but it is pretty accurate a study of how we are seen and begin to see ourselves through

But even more so, she appeals to her infinite loneliness. And if you have ever had young kids under your care, you know exactly how consuming, how amazing, how lonely it gets. So much so that you might fall for the same trick three times in a row.

In the Grimm’s version, the witch dons different costumes and brings a succession of offerings: A lace that then strangles Snow White, a Hair Comb that poisons her and ultimately, the very infamous poison apple. In every case, the witch appeals to Snow White’s vanity and desire.

She cleans endlessly and cooks and cares for these little men. But they also, like all children, eventually get to go out and find their own lives. They work, she cannot. She either makes the home or waits endlessly for their return. Enter the witch.

She has been exiled from the feminine space of the maiden as she presented too much of a threat to her mother. So, she lives a life devoid of excitement and sensuality. Now, her existence is reduced to this hut. To leave would mean death.

Disney really sanitizes the following scenes, making Snow White a happy homemaker who brings feminine order and Pinterest worthy improvements to this idyllic hut in the forest. But the reality is more complex. She is thankful to the dwarves for allowing her to stay but she also their prisoner.

Stepmother but rather a full fledged hating biological mother. As we know, the hunter takes pity on our young heroine and spares her life. Snow White now begins a very strange chapter. She becomes a type of mother to seven Dwarves who live in the forest.

Continuous checks in the Magic Mirror cannot satisfy the Queen’s fears and one day her worst nightmare is confirmed. Snow White’s beauty exceeds her own, so, she must be killed. Now, most Grimm stories are actually a softened version of the originals. So it is likely that the queen was a not a

What endured in this story is the honest retelling of the extreme loneliness of motherhood. Snow White’s journey begins when she loses her own mother and her father remarries a woman who hates her stepdaughter and is extremely jealous of her youth.