The Differences In Film And Novel Of Snow White
In both the film and the novel, the famous words are said “skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, hair as black as ebony” this line has a lot more to it than just explaining what snow-white looks like. Although, there are little difference between the meaning in the novel and the film. In the novel the white represents purity, the red represents life and adventure and the black represents death. However, in the film the white represents snow white being a young woman, the red represents her growth of maturity all throughout the film and the black is when she had experienced death.
Many people think that the seven dwarfs represent the seven deadly sins however, each dwarf’s name represents the personality of mankind. However, when watching the Disney film of snow white there have been moments in the film that show the seven deadly sins most of which either evolve the evil queen or it is the evil queen herself. The first deadly sin that is shown in the film is the magic mirror, the mirror directs pride or vanity towards the queen. The second sin is lust/extravagance this is also towards the queen as she is royalty and is well presented in the film. The next two sins are very much aimed towards the queen these are heavily shown not just in the film but in the novel as well. These are greed and envy. The queen very much shown the amount of power that she wants all throughout the film and the novel. At the start of both the film and novel it starlight away shows the audience the amount of envy she has towards snow white and how much she wishes to be like her. The last three sins are represented by the dwarfs, the first one reparented in sloth or sadness. In both the film the audience sees the dwarfs mourn over snow white and in the novel, it says “they wept for three whole days”. This very much represents the sloth.
The next is wrath, this is where the film and the novel have the same ending but the plot is different. As in the novel the queen is invited to snow white’s wedding and she attends they end up putting iron slippers on the evil queen feet and she ends up dancing to death, however, in the film all the dwarfs and the wild animals end up chasing the queen up a mountain the queen then ends up falling to her death.
