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Grimms’ Fairy Tale Analysis

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a short story by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The two were German philologists who came up with the timeless literary masterpiece known as the Grimm’s fairy tales collection. Their stories were inspired by the thought that folk stories handed down from one generation to the other by word of mouth carried fundamental ideas, reactions and beliefs. These stories were written during a time when parents told stories to admonish and teach their children (Zipe, 2015). These stories were also used by parents as a way of expressing their joys, hopes, sorrows, and fears.

The stories were profound to children and grown up alike. In fact, from what research shows, the stories were not only intended for children, but also for adults. The stories were written at a time when Nazi was the ruling party in Germany. The party warmly approved the book since they felt that it was vital for them to uphold the nationalist, as well as the nationalist supremacy of the Germans. Most of the books, however, portrayed oppression of those who were weaker and those who were powerful sought to dominate the weak (Grimm, Grimm, Jarrell, Burkert&Tehon, 1972). This was the case with Adolph Hitler and his philosophy of totalism.

When compared to modern versions, the original story had an essence of Volk culture, which emanated from natural experience and served to bring the people together. Grimms’ efforts went into uncovering things from their past. The modern version, however, is artificial and cannot express culture genuinely and if it does, it is mixed up since the globe has changed into a society. As Grimms explained, they were interested in culture when they started collecting the fairy tales (Zipe, 2015). They believed that the early nineteenth century was the best time to do that since the people with the responsibility of preserving it were becoming more scarce as the years passed.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is one of the most famous fairy tales in the world, first related in 1812 when the Grimm brothers published their collection of tales that had been gathered from old European folk stories. Like many of the Grimm tales, it is believed that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been in existence since the Middle Ages, passed down through word-of-mouth over the centuries.  In 1937, Walt Disney’s animated feature film of Snow White popularized the story worldwide, and since then, it has generally been regarded as purely a tale of fiction. However, recent research suggests the famous fairy tale may not be so fictional after all.

Fairy Tales Elements

· A fairy tale is a magic story which can not be true, and often has a beginning phrase that indicates a distant past or make-believe land

Once upon a time……

Once there was….

Long, long ago…

· Fairy tales have imaginary characters that are good and bad. Fairy tales often have royal characters such as queens, kings, princes, princesses and sometimes a castle, Imaginary characters like dragons, fairies, elves, and giants are often in fairy tales.

“She had a magic mirror, which she would stand before every morning and ask: “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? And since the magic mirror always spoke the truth, the Queen knew with certainty that no one was more beautiful in the land than she was, and she was happy.”

· Characters in fairy tales often have magical powers or magical things.

Things often appear or happen in ‘threes’ or ‘sevens’. '

“a beautiful Queen sewing in a window, which had a frame of black ebony. As she worked, gazing out on the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow. Seeing how beautiful the red looked on the white snow, the Queen thought to herself, “Would that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as this frame”

· Sometimes a lesson can be learned from the ending of the fairy tale. A fairy tale has a pleasing ending and often a happy ending phrase. ….and they lived happily ever after.

The Novel vs. Disney’s Movie

· Disney did add to Snow White is the dwarves names, Doc, Happy, Sneezy, Doopey, Grumpy, Sleepy, and Bashful.

· Disney adds songs to the movies to make it more memorable.

· The Ending of the novel much darker than the Disney movie.

“Iron slippers were made in the fire for the Queen and she was forced to wear them and dance in them. Her feet were miserable as they burned, and she could not stop dancing until she dropped down dead.”

References

Grimm, J., Grimm, W., Jarrell, R., Burkert, N., &Tehon, A. (1972). Snow-White and the seven dwarfs. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Zipe, J. (2015). How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairy Tale. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 7 April 2016, from http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/marchapril/feature/how-the-grimm-brothers-saved-the-fairy-tale