History Literature / SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The seven dwarfs are short and mine for ore, otherwise there are no other explicit traits they seem have in common with dwarf/dwarves in modern (read :[[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium post-Tolkien]]) fantasy literature.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The seven dwarfs are short and mine for ore, otherwise there are no other explicit traits they seem have in common with dwarf/dwarves in modern (read "[[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium post-Tolkien]]") fantasy literature.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The seven dwarfs are short and mine for ore, otherwise there are no other explicit traits they seem have in common with dwarf/dwarves in modern (as in "[[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium post-Tolkien]]") fantasy literature.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: They are short and mine for ore, Otherwise there are no other explicit traits they seem have in common with dwarf/dwarves in modern (as in "[[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium post-Tolkien]]") fantasy literature.

* {{Lolicon}}: Probably the prince. Depending on the version, Snow White is ''seven years old'' when she flees her stepmother and it's unlikely that she spend more than a year or two with dwarfs.
** The subtext and comparisons inside the tale hint that Snow White actually goes through metaphorical spring (the Queen working as the forces of winter), and thus is at least far enough into teenagehood for looking adult-like when the prince meets her. Plus, we do not know how old he was. [[FridgeLogic In this context, she may as well have been older than him]].
** Many fairytale heroines/heroes were never stated to be children, just young, but were regressed by later generations due to their usual innocence.
** The Grimms version does explicitly state that she was in the glass coffin for several years. Presumably she was at least a teenager when the Prince turned up.

In recent years, more ActionGirl-style portrayals of Snow White have come to the fore. ''Sword and Sorceress XXVII'''s introduction contrasted SnowWhite's portrayal in the Grimm and Disney versions with that of modern versions like ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'', ''Film/MirrorMirror'', and ''Series/OnceUponATime''. Anthology editor ElizabethWaters says:

Because of Snow White's rather [[{{Goth}} unusual]] [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette appearance]] and the disturbing psychological issues in the story, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is frequently subject to {{Grimmification}} or DarkerAndEdgier treatment. One such example is a [[Film/SnowWhiteATaleofTerror 1997 horror version]] with Creator/SigourneyWeaver as the queen. There's also a 2001 version subtitled [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255605/ Fairest of Them All]] with Miranda Richardson as the queen and Kristin Kreuk as Snow White, and [[RainbowMotif rainbow dwarves]], named after the days of the week. Finally, let's not forget NeilGaiman's short story "[[http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/stories/snow-glass-apples Snow, Glass, and Apples]]", where we have a perspective flip that takes some of the more eerie parts of the story, and makes them much much worse.

-- '''JustForFun/TheUniversalGenreSavvyGuide''', ''[[http://www.geocities.com/evilsnack/truelove.htm The True Love List]]''

--> I suspect that most modern viewers find it easier to identify with a Snow White who fights back. Spending years asleep in a glass coffin waiting to be awakend by "TrueLovesKiss" is hopefully something that girls today aspire to. We can fight for what we want, and we have a good chance of getting it.

->"Mirror, mirror, on the wall,\\
Who's the {{fairest of them all}}?"

By far the most well-known adaptation of this story is {{Disney}}'s first full-length animated feature, ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''.

Not related to ''Literature/SnowWhiteFireRed'' or ''Literature/SnowWhiteAndRoseRed''.

* [[DontTouchItYouIdiot Don't touch it, you fools!! It might be poison!!]]

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Snow White traditionally has skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony. Which leads to....
** RavenHairIvorySkin: As it's what also makes her beautiful.

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Snow White traditionally has skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony.

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Snow White.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The Queen's eventual fate.
** Unusual, yes, but it's not cool in any sense of the word.

Other adaptations have varied from ''SnowWhiteAndTheThreeStooges'' to ''{{Pretear}}'', which rewrites it as a MagicalGirlWarrior show, the very loose BettyBoop adaptation entitled only as ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhite'' and then there's ''CoalBlackAndDeSebbenDwarfs'', which would be a side-splitter had not excessive UncleTomfoolery [[ValuesDissonance ruined it]].

A queen wishes for a child with lips as red as blood, [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette hair as black as ebony]], and [[RavenHairIvorySkin skin as white as snow]]. She gets her wish and names the child Snow White, but promptly dies and is replaced by a WickedStepmother who prides herself on her great beauty. Every day the stepmother asks her magic mirror:

* DistressedDamsel

** There is also a short story ("Red as Blood" by TanithLee) that gives a different view on the matter: the Queen is actually [[spoiler:a heroine who recognizes that the King's first wife (Snow White's mother) was a vampire. After trying several tests (seeing if Snow will go near a rose bush, look in a mirror, or take communion), the Queen determines that the princess is a vampire as well and sends a hunter with a cross to kill her before she reaches adulthood and goes off to kill people as her mother did. This does not go too well so the Queen disguises herself as a hag and gives Snow the apple (actually from the flesh of Jesus) which puts her into a coma. The "prince" (implied to be Jesus) wakes her up and turns her into a human girl. Oh, and the dwarves are stunted tree spirits in it.]]

* LighterAndSofter: Russian version by AlexanderPushkin removes the most gruesome and squicky aspects of the story. Queen doesn't want to eat her step-daugther's heart - "just" have her left in the forest to die; the prince doesn't fall in love with a corpse - he was engaged to her even before the kidnapping and when he finds her, he breaks the coffin in grief, and she's revived by the PowerOfLove; and they don't make the Queen dance in red-hot iron shoes (because we don't do such sick stuff in Russia!) and she just dies of spite and envy (or maybe kills herself) after learning that the princess is alive and recovered.

** "Snow, Glass, Apples", by NeilGaiman, is also told from the perspective of the Queen, who came to realize that Snow White's father died because [[spoiler:the little girl was sucking his blood (and [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre other]] [[{{Squick}} parts]] [[ParentalIncest of]] him). The queen eventually succeeds in poisoning Snow White with the apple, but the prince who finds her is explicitly stated to be a necrophiliac who wants her ''because'' she's dead. The two marry and shut the stepmother up in an oven--did I mention the queen is narrating the story while being ''roasted alive''?]]

Because of Snow White's rather [[{{Goth}} unusual]] [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette appearance]] and the disturbing psychological issues in the story, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is frequently subject to {{Grimmification}} or DarkerAndEdgier treatment. One such example is a [[Film/SnowWhiteATaleofTerror 1997 horror version]] with SigourneyWeaver as the queen. There's also a 2001 version subtitled [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255605/ Fairest of Them All]] with Miranda Richardson as the queen and Kristin Kreuk as Snow White, and [[RainbowMotif rainbow dwarves]], named after the days of the week. Finally, let's not forget NeilGaiman's short story "[[http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/stories/snow-glass-apples Snow, Glass, and Apples]]", where we have a perspective flip that takes some of the more eerie parts of the story, and makes them much much worse.

* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Although, in all fairness, the prince thought she was dead.
** [[{{Squick}} And this is better, how?]]
** In the original tale, he doesn't kiss her. Instead, he falls in love with her beautiful corpse and takes it home. During the journey, the bit of apple in her throat is dislodged and she wakes up. There isn't the squick of him kissing someone he thought was dead, but it still raises some questions.
*** There are probably plenty of normal reasons he could do that. Perhaps he was having trouble finding an interesting coffee table and thought a crystal casket would be a nifty conversation piece.
*** It can be seen as a way to give someone who was obiviously abandonned by her human family and not burried among humans the treatment he thinks she desserves, while dreaming of WhatCouldHaveBeen.

* ExtremelyDustyHome: The dwarfs home before she cleans it up.

Because of Snow White's rather [[{{Goth}} unusual]] [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette appearance]] and the disturbing psychological issues in the story, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is frequently subject to {{Grimmification}} or DarkerAndEdgier treatment. One such example is a [[Film/SnowWhiteATaleofTerror 1997 horror version]] with SigourneyWeaver as the queen. There's also a 2001 version subtitled [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255605/ Fairest of Them All]] with Miranda Richardson as the queen and Kristin Kreuk as Snow White, and [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience rainbow dwarves]], named after the days of the week. Finally, let's not forget NeilGaiman's short story "[[http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/stories/snow-glass-apples Snow, Glass, and Apples]]", where we have a perspective flip that takes some of the more eerie parts of the story, and makes them much much worse.

** The 2009 novel ''Fairest of All: A Novel of the Wicked Queen'' makes the Queen the protagonist, and in the process of giving her a backstory addresses such issues as what happened to Snow White's dad, the origin of the Magic Mirror, etc. [[spoiler:The Queen becomes evil due to a combination of parental abuse that continues from beyond the grave and the death of the King, the only man who ever truly loved her, and it warps her view of Snow's beauty, innocence, and good nature.]]