Regina was born to Henry and Cora Mills. The land that their estate rested on was within the kingdom of King Leopold. Regina loved her father and was always filled with joy in his presence. Her mother Cora was a witch who only sought to do what was best for her daughter. Though they never saw eye to eye she loved her mother. Around the age of 18, Regina fell in love with their stable boy, Daniel. He was her one true love and all she wanted was to be with him. She would often sneak into the stables to spend time with him. The rouse of riding lessons was given to her parents. While Regina did take riding lessons from Daniel more often they were stealing kisses and finding ways to avoid her parents. One afternoon she rode up to meet Daniel at their special spot on a hill where they discussed true love and telling her parents about them. Regina tells him that she fears what her mother would do when/if she found out about them. Hearing screams coming from a short distance Regina pulls away from her love to see who is approaching. A young girl is seen riding a horse who had chosen to go wild. Regina takes one last look at Daniel and runs to her own horse immediately taking after the girl. When she catches up to her she pulls her horse alongside the wild one and tells the girl to grab a hold of her hand pulling her to safety. The young girl identifies herself as Snow White thanking her for saving her life.
Later on her mother praises her for doing something right and learns that Snow was the Kings daughter and he was on his way to thank her personally. The Kings intention for visiting was not to thank her but ask for her hand in marriage. Her mother quickly accepted much to Regina's abject horror. The King was nearly twice her age and ...
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...h mod led by Dr. Whale just earlier. Rumple enters after they leave and seals her fate. With the help of Emma, Snow, and Charming Regina was able to avoid having her soul sucked out by the Wraith. In the attempt to rid themselves of the Wraith, Emma and Snow were pulled into the hat. Not long after Regina regained her magic and used it to take Henry. After realizing what she had become, Regina swore to Henry that she would not use magic and that she wanted to redeem herself. Through the efforts of Dr. Whale, Daniel was brought back to life but he wasn't her true love. He was a monster that was too dangerous to be kept alive. Still she tried to reason with him and find the stable boy who had been her true love beneath it all. In the end she was forced to let Daniel go for good. Following Daniel's death she returned to Archie's office to continue her sessions with him.
The differences between Grimm’s version of “Snow White” and Anne Sexton’s poem, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” reflects how society sees women. To start, in Anne Sexton’s version the step-mother is the “fairest of us all” until Snow White turns 13. Then, in stanza 2 line 19 Snow White is “fairer than you [the step-mother],” whereas before Snow White is “no more important than a dust mouse under the bed” (stanza 4 line 6). In Grimm’s version of “Snow White,” Snow White’s mother declares her beauty while she is young; Snow White is “as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the window-frame” (pg. 124). The difference in stories shows the significance of women becoming valuable around the time they hit puberty, which supports
...seems to have endured the most in his life. Not only did he spend his youth caring for his sick mother and then wife, but he now must live in the painful memory of how his life could have been if the accident never happened. The end of the book leaves the readers saddened and frustrated. Though the novella began with a plotline seemingly leading to an ending as cheery as that of Snow White, in the end, this beautiful maiden turned sour. In this storybook tragedy, “the lovers do not live happily ever after. The witch wins” (Ammons 1).
Regina George is a junior in high school who is described as teen royalty. As the leader of her clique referred to as “The Plastics”, she rules the school with her best friends Gretchen Weiners and Karen Smith loyally at her side. The three girls feed off of tearing the other girls in the school down and diminishing them by writing awful rumors and secrets in the “Burn Book”. With her tall and skinny physique, bright blonde hair and good-looks, she uses her sex appeal and superiority to manipulate and victimize the people around her including her family. Regina easily controls her family members. Her mother worships the ground Regina walks on and desperately looks to her for acceptance. Her ability to make other girls at school feel inferior fuels her power, as queen bee Regina is seen as the “it” girl. Everyone wants to look like her, dress like her, and be just like her. She uses her sex appeal to get any guy she wants and dangles them around everyone else to make them jealous.
This creates sinister predators within her short stories through the use of empowering and dangerous women. in ‘The Snow Child’, the use of subversion turns the traditional fable of Snow White’s existence from maternal desire into a child who is the product of paternal desire and sexual fantasy. The original tale of Snow White explores a queen who is driven by her desire for beauty and youth, this is similar within ‘The Snow Child’ as the Countess becomes jealous of the child as the Count begins to favour her. The countess and the child are portrayed as binary opposites throughout the story; as one is clothed, the other is naked. This could reflect the importance of appearance within society, and explain the Countess’ antagonistic response to the child and acts of neglect due to her jealousy of the child’s beauty. Carter’s description of the Countess’ clothing leaves the reader with an idea of her dangerous nature; she wears “pelts of black foxes”, an association suggesting a predatory and cunning nature. She also wears “scarlet heels, and spurs” and it may be that the colour of the heels comes from the actions of the spurs, which adds to this idea of violence. We see this nature when she is threatened by the child regarding the Count’s affections, “wife” becoming “the Countess” in a shift emphasised by finally having her own thoughts and feelings in the
The Grimm’s stories have strict criteria for good and evil. Good women are not the hero, they do not plan, nor do they get themselves out of bad situations; they are obtuse and wait until a Prince saves them. These qualities doom the female protagonists (and readers) to pursue the only destiny women have, and that is to be a wife and mother (Rowe, 1978). Cinderella is the heroine and the ideal good girl. She is unambiguously beautiful, kind, and compassionate. She does not complain or get angry. This is foreseen early in the Grimm’s Cinderella story:
Although a desert is a dangerous place, full of snakes; and coyotes with very few people visit,; Regina still manages to survives despite the harsh circumstances. She even learns how to use a gun to protects herself from the threatening wildlife. The death of her Junior, her husband, made Regina become stronger and independent. Because of marrying him, she gets his army benefits. She could not stay and hide in the shadows. Without her husband, she still gets new jobs, the jobs she dream of. She also has a business which earns her extra money for her daily life. Regina takes care of Gabo like her own son. She loves and respects her family, which is shown in the way she is worried about the disappearance of her brother, or when she wants to take her nephew to New York. She is trying to do something goods for her family, but t the gruesome death of Gabo's mother and the disappearance of Rafa, make Regina and Gabo rely on each
Her character and personality is a prime example of perfectionism. In the movie, she secures the title of “queen bee” within her group of friends. Regina controlled her friends on what to believe, what to say, and even what to wear. Showing no signs of sympathy, Regina refused to allow anyone below her standards of ideal into her small group of friends. Quickly, she mastered superiority making not only her friends feel inferior but also other peers. Annoyed at Regina’s manipulating, controlling, and self-centered ways, Regina’s group of friends turn their back to her. In the end, Regina loses her friends and becomes hated as a result of her perfectionism. Regina’s perfectionism leads to her social
Roses are red, violets are blue, Snow White has changed, everything’s new. This is a different beginning than the original story of Little Snow White by the Grimm Brothers and retold by the director Rupert Sanders, in the movie Snow White and the Huntsman. The original story portrays Snow White as a beautiful, but naive, young woman, leading up to her eating a poisoned apple from the evil queen. The evil queen has been jealous of Snow White after she has grown up and become more beautiful. Although in both the story and the movie, Snow White eats a poisoned apple, Snow White in Snow White and the Huntsman is portrayed as more brave and courageous, even after she wakes up from the poisoned apple. In the end, both the story and the movie show that Snow White’s triumphs out rules all, no matter what is thrown at her, but the difference is in how. While there are many common motifs across the story and the movie; Gender roles have changed over time, as shown in the
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
Over the years, Snow White’s story has been told in numerous different versions then its original version in 1812 by the Grimm Brothers. The main basis of the story has remained the same. Only a few minor tweaks to the story have changed. The three versions of the story that are going to be analyzed are the original story “Little Snow White” by the Brothers Grimm, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” by Disney, and “Mirror, Mirror” by Disney also. They each were created in very different times and the original story has changed over the years to appeal to the audience of that time. No matter how many versions there are Snow White is considered, one of the most cherished fairy tales of all time. They each use different methods to get their story across by using different colors, word usage, and scenes.
Though the evils of the world may discourage us from reaching our full potential, fairytales such as Little Snow-White by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm teach us that good will always triumph over evil. As many tales of its kind, Little Snow-White uses a number of literary devices to attract a younger audience and communicate to them a lesson or moral that will remain with them throughout their lives. Since children have such an abstract stream of thought, it is vital to use language and devices that will appeal to them as to keep them interested in the story.
In the original Little-Snow White by the Grimms brothers and the readapted Disney version, the stepmother
The media today is overflowing with idealistic representations of modern life; society’s hunger for excellence is reproduced in every detail of the media we consume. Reality, in contrast, is a poor substitute for the fairytale world of film, where good beats evil and stories end with a happily ever after. Arguably, women are often the “victims” of motion picture’s perfect perceptions, and feminism’s persistent test is to challenge these impractical representations. The female princess characters show an example of inaccurate feminine fulfillment.
Many people love to see and read fairy tales and never give it a second thought to where they originated from. Or some people do not even know that their favorite disney princess movie really was not created by Walt Disney himself. A lot of the time, a lot of movies, books, etc., are taken from stories that were written long ago and twisted to satisfy the person creating a new version of a tale. Like many famous tales, Rapunzel first originated or was written in 1812 by the Grimm Brothers. The Grimm brothers were inspired by earlier tales similar to Rapunzel, but the story plot was the first of its kind. Rapunzel has been made into hit movies, tv shows, tales, poems, name anything, it has been done. There are four versions of Rapunzel that
Regina Maywack lived just down the road from me. Before 5th grade I never knew who she was. As the year progressed we got closer and closer. Regina was extremely talented. She was, in my mind, a genius; she loved school and always did well. She was also blessed with athletic ability. Something I respected since most other kids we knew weren't involved in sports. No matter what day it was I always went to school knowing that Regina would be there with a smile on her face. It seemed as though she didn't have a care in the world. There were days I would show up mad at something my parents had done, or at something that hadn't gone my way, and she would just look at me with those honest eyes and tell me to be thankful for the good things.