The Brothers Grimm version of Snow White is very
different from the Disney version in many ways. The Grimm version was very graphic
and less romantic than the Disney version. For example, the evil Queen asks the
Huntsman to bring back Snow White’s lungs and liver when he kills her so she
can eat them. In Disney’s version she just asks the Huntsman to kill Snow
White. Another difference is the way that Snow White awakens. In the Grimm
version the prince sees her for the first time asleep and falls in love with
her and asks the dwarfs to give him the coffin as a gift because he “can’t go
on without seeing her face. On the way to his castle one of his men carrying
the coffin stumbles and the piece of poison apple in Snow White’s throat is
released and she wakes up. It is much more romantic in Disney’s version. In the
Disney version, the prince comes back and finds Snow White asleep. He awakens
her with true love’s first kiss.
Even though the versions were very different,
they still had many similarities. In both versions the evil Queen relied on her
magic mirror to tell her who was the fairest of them all. Also, in both
versions the Queen gives Snow White a poison apple. The dwarfs then place her
in a coffin and stay by her side.
There are a few reasons that Disney made the
changes he did. One was that since the movie is for younger audiences, so he
needed to take out the graphic parts. Also, Snow White came out during the
Great Depression, a time when people needed hope, not sadness in their lives. Disney
added the romantic and hopeful ending because it was exactly what the people of
the Great Depression needed.
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