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Running head: SNOW WHITE’S TALE: THE TRUTH

Snow White’s tale: The Truth
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Snow White fairy tale
Sex and Gender
Introduction
The Snow White fairy tale was originally written by the brothers Jacob Grim and
Wilhelm Grim. It is the tale of a queen who begets a daughter whom she names Snow White.
Like many other tales, the gender bias in the tale is quite clear for anyone looking to critically
analyze the tale. It is like many other tales, a tale in which the lady is depicted as
exceptionally beautiful in such a manner that her beauty mesmerizes those around her;
working to inevitably manipulate others through her beauty. The Male characters on the other
hand, are depicted as saviors, often saving the beautiful ladies from a consequent danger
following the lady’s inability to either have the physical or mental capability to manage the
situation and save her from the predicament she is in (Grimm, 2015). Beauty is an asset in
fairy tales, while the lack of it, or rather failing to fall under the threshold of the exceptionally
beautiful is often a basis for malice and evil streaks in women. Due to this ideology, women
devoid of a particular degree of beauty are thereby classified as evil and malicious, an
ideology that a number of tales have adopted.
Albeit the fact that snow white has been an evolutionary tale and has been over the
years, some researchers and scholars have analyzed the tale to find inconsistencies that would
subject the tale into scrutiny. Questions have been raised since, especially on the account
made by the Grimm Brothers on what the tale was supposed to communicate to the audience
it was essentially deemed to target. More so, it has been noted that such tales impact the life
of a child based on how the child construed the elements of the tale. Subject to this,
researchers and feminists have resulted to formulating an account of the tale that tells a
different version in which Snow White may be beautiful and graceful, but she is far from

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being a helpless damsel in distress. Other authors have also resulted to retelling the account
differently, neglecting to include aspects that were originally in the first tale by the Grimm
Brothers such as cannibalism. The question therefore remains, what was the essence of the
tale, are the roles of the characters in the tale defined on a gender basis: is the tale on snow
white really a tale that perpetuates gender inequality to the viewers?
Snow white
Literary analysis
Structure and morals
Albeit the fact that the Grimm brother’s account of Snow White was the first
published, other accounts have soon thereafter followed this account. The tale of snow white
differs with different authors. For instance, ...