Snow White And The Little Mermaid Comparison

Snow White and the Little Mermaid In the world of fairy tales, most people today think of the happy stories of princesses and princes finding each other and falling in love. However, in the original versions written by the Grimm brothers, these beloved tales have a much more gruesome story to tell. The Little Mermaid and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs are just two examples of stories with many violent demonstrations of disturbing, but important lessons. These tales have many similarities or motifs, but also have their unique differences. These stories both have members of a royal family as the main characters. Ariel was a princess in the underwater kingdom ruled by her father. She had many other sisters along with a grandmother who acts as a kind caretaker or mother. Snow White was also a princess, but she only had an evil stepmother who is obsessed with beauty. The difference

They faced many challenges to survive. Ariel must make a deal with an evil witch. She asked for legs to pursue her lover on land. The witch did make the deal, but made it much more difficult giving her a deadline of three days. If she could not make the prince fall in love with her after the three days, she would turn into seafoam. The evil witch sabotaged her when the witch herself goes on land and makes the prince fall in love with her instead. With no comrades on land to help her, and the powerful jealousy of the witch caused Ariel to fail. On the other hand, Snow White was almost killed by her step mother. Although she escaped, the queen tried to kill her three more times. Once by a lace around her neck, another by a cursed comb, and the third by the poisoned apple. These three attempts of murder and sabotage show just how blinded by jealousy the evil queen really was. Both of these princesses faced challenges that were sabotaged, however, only Snow White was able to prevail while Ariel committed