Snow White - Professor Elisabeth Krimmer PDF

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Professor Elisabeth Krimmer...

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Snow White ● Snow white = schneewittchen = snow flake ● Motifs ○ Birth ○ Jealousy **** ■ Something the grimms really liked, not all versions have it ○ Adoption ○ Death ○ Resolution ○ Theres more she talked fast as fuck ● Grimms version ○ Mother transforms into step mother ○ Heroine becomes more domestic ● Basile - italian - The young slave ○ Lisa and lilla ○ Fucked up ○ Crystal casket????? ● Scottish Version - Lasair Gheug, the King of Ireland’s Daughter ○ Inheritance, not sexual jealous ○ OG the stepmom is very kind, then learns about inheritance laws - daughter gets errything, she get nothing, decides to get rid of kiddo ○ Stepmom and evil person kills the dog, the horse, then the son, and blames Lasair, doesnt work ○ Stepmom gets sick and says the only thing that will make her better is to eat lasairs heart ○ Daddio takes Lasair into the woods and cuts off her finger???? Continues to cut off her fingers????? ■ Leaves her in the forest bc hes a dick ■ Ok she makes friends with a cat, who is also a prince?? They get married, honestly what the fuck ○ Mommio finds out lasair isnt dead, puts her in a coma ■ Princeio puts her in a box? ■ “Grieves” but marries a new bitch ■ New bitch wakes lasair up ○ Main motifs ■ Conflict between a younger and older woman ■ Some kind of object bringing on a coma (ice, comb, apple, etc) ● Johann Karl August Musaus - German version w/mirror and poison apple ○ Mirror reflects her morality ○ Yay anti semitism!! ■ Gets poison from the jews ● Pushkin - The dead Princess and the 7 Knights; Russian version ○ 7 knights instead of dwarves ○ Coma

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Real life snow whites ○ Prof doesnt care about her/doesnt think they inspired the story ○ 16th century woman ○ Margarete von Waldeck ○ Talking mirror in Lohr Color symbols **** ○ V important in snow white stories Always bring on a coma Evil step momma is always punished ○ Barrels with boiling oil (really into these barrel punishments arent we?) Cannibalism Narcissus ○ Loves himself tooooo much ○ Doesn't notice other people ○ This is important bc in snow white the stepmom is so obsessed with herself she doesnt care what others are feeling Mirror as voice of father, the voice of the king Jacques Lacan - mirror stage Cupid and psyche ○ Conflict between older and younger woman ○ Aphrodite/Venus orders her son Cupid/Amor to destroy princess psyche bc she's jealous of her beauty, but her son falls in love instead ○ Cupid keeps her prisoner ■ Becomes lovers Lucus Cranach - adam and eve and the apple Stepmother ○ Female cannibal? ○ Greek mythology has male cannibals ○ Atreus slaughtered Thyeste’s sons and fed them to him ○ French only has one word for stepmother or mother-in-law ■ Mother-in-law makes more sense with young vs old woman conflict ● Conflict with the new bride, new female authority Splitting of the mother into 2 sides ○ Good - biological mother ○ Evil - step mother ○...