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Their wedding was set for the next day, and Snow-White's godless mother was invited as well. That morning she stepped before the mirror and said:
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?
The mirror answered:
You, my queen, are fair; it is true.
But the young queen
Is a thousand times fairer than you.
She was horrified to hear this, and so overtaken with fear that she could not say anything. Still, her jealousy drove her to go to the wedding and see the young queen. When she arrived she saw that it was Snow-White. Then they put a pair of iron shoes into the fire until they glowed, and she had to put them on and dance in them. Her feet were terribly burned, and she could not stop until she had danced herself to death.
Let's not forget that the charming little princess ate the poisoned apple while she was 7 years old. She might have aged in the coffin without decaying, but I doubt it. *shrugs* And they lived happily ever after.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?
The mirror answered:
You, my queen, are fair; it is true.
But the young queen
Is a thousand times fairer than you.
She was horrified to hear this, and so overtaken with fear that she could not say anything. Still, her jealousy drove her to go to the wedding and see the young queen. When she arrived she saw that it was Snow-White. Then they put a pair of iron shoes into the fire until they glowed, and she had to put them on and dance in them. Her feet were terribly burned, and she could not stop until she had danced herself to death.
Let's not forget that the charming little princess ate the poisoned apple while she was 7 years old. She might have aged in the coffin without decaying, but I doubt it. *shrugs* And they lived happily ever after.
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"she was 7 years old" at a time and a place when the Prince would have been 11 to 13 years old and the wicked queen would have been a middle-aged 23 years old (or a gray-haired 40-year old in her ancient peddler disguise). (In most variations of the story, it's also implied that she ages, so that she enters the privacy of the coffin as a child and leaves it as a woman by the standards of her time. Her sleep in the glass coffin is symbolic of a puberty in which she engages only with herself and allows no man nor any other human being to disrupt her soul-deep meditations. For the girls and women of the day, this privacy in which men guarded over her but never interrupted her solitude would have been seen as a luxurious spiritual ideal come true!) He does not awaken her with a kiss but takes over guarding her coffin, and she wakes up on her own (or spits up the bite of apple) and only then allows him the kiss once she sees him and decides she likes what she sees.
As a similar phenomenon, in Romeo and Juliet (a far far younger tale than the original Snow White), Juliet's parents outright state they worried because their daughter is not yet married at age 13 and now turning 14 and that Juliet's mother -- who feels old and weary -- is twice her age, so Lady Capulet is either an ancient 26 years or an ancient 28 years old. Though Romeo's age is not directly stated in the play, it's known that Shakespear intended him to be somewhere around 15 years old. Yes, when Tybalt kills Mercutio it is a teen killing a teen!
We forget how long modern lifespans are compared to most of human history -- and how incredibly long our childhoods are.
We err when we colonialize stories set many centuries in the past by imposing our modernist notions on them. Or when we fail to respect women's right to solitude, when they are allowed to be "dead" to the social impositions of the world until the day comes when they wake up and allow the Prince the privilege of marrying them.
As a similar phenomenon, in Romeo and Juliet (a far far younger tale than the original Snow White), Juliet's parents outright state they worried because their daughter is not yet married at age 13 and now turning 14 and that Juliet's mother -- who feels old and weary -- is twice her age, so Lady Capulet is either an ancient 26 years or an ancient 28 years old. Though Romeo's age is not directly stated in the play, it's known that Shakespear intended him to be somewhere around 15 years old. Yes, when Tybalt kills Mercutio it is a teen killing a teen!
We forget how long modern lifespans are compared to most of human history -- and how incredibly long our childhoods are.
We err when we colonialize stories set many centuries in the past by imposing our modernist notions on them. Or when we fail to respect women's right to solitude, when they are allowed to be "dead" to the social impositions of the world until the day comes when they wake up and allow the Prince the privilege of marrying them.