Snow White By Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm: Literary Analysis

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Finally in Snow White by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, beauty is the reason this story happens. Snow White’s stepmother had a magical mirror and she asks this question, “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?” (Snow White pg. 1). For years she was the answer and was satisfied because the mirror could only speak the truth. The stepmother was happy until one day the mirror told her that her Snow White was the fairest of all and the step-mother become jealous of her and that jealousy morphed into hatred which led her to want to kill Snow White. Because of her beauty Snow White was able to survive, the huntsman didn’t kill her, “Because she was so beautiful the huntsman took pity on her” (Snow White pg.2). The seven dwarfs

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