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When reading the story of Snow White, I interpreted the story as a conflict between two different types of women fighting against each other to gain power. The Queen is a rebellious woman who seeks for her own happiness, and actively strives for her benefits. She deceives the King, who is normally thought as the most powerful. She resembles Lilith, who is mentioned as Adam’s first wife and co-creation. Lilith refused to have children or be subservient to God, which led to her excursion from the Garden of Eden.
In contrast with Lilith, Eve was from Adam’s ribs and subservient. This is consistent with Snow White in the fairy tale. Snow White is creation of the King without the help of the Queen, while she possesses familial powers such as doing the dishes or making food for her family as shown in the dwarves’ house. At the end of the day, obedient Snow White is who wins over the Queen, implying that the fairy tale world is more in preference with obedient women.
The Queen is initially jealous of the gaze and interest from the King that Snow White receives, but as time goes on, she decides to kill Snow White and castrate King’s power. This is extremely important; for it is an indication that although the Queen is under the influence of the King’s power, she soon fights back in her own way. Such shift can be observed when the Queen insists the heart of Snow White to be taken to her jewelry box and prepares to cook Snow White’s heart. This is what resembles Atreus and Thyestes, when the unfaithful is forced to eat a dish of his own child that symbolizes his present and future existence of men, which is their child. This can be thought as an active aggression done by the Queen, which fails in the story structure of the original Snow White. I decided to make it happen, and let the King’s power be castrated by the Queen.
There is a last feature in this story that needs deeper consideration. It is the King. The King is existent throughout the whole story. The influence he projects is massive; the King and the Prince executes the punishment and the reward, but they never are viewed clearly by the readers. King is mentioned, but he resides by the opaque side of the story. If we concede that vision is power, this kind of existence is an indication that the King is not deceived, is not viewed and is not lost. The King is not castrated throughout the story, which is something that I will change in my version of the Snow White.
Illustrations of My Feministic Theme
I will put the Queen in the object (lowercase) of every sentence before she succeeds in making the King eat Snow White’s heart. The King will always be in subject (Capitalized) until he eats, but after eating, he will be exposed in the story as an object, contrary to the Queen.
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