Little Snow White Persuasive Essay

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The short story, Little Snow-White reveals the gruesome story on Snow White. Snow White is a young girl who recently had a new stepmother when her mother died. Her stepmother despised Snow White because her magical looking glass shared that Snow White was more beautiful than her. Therefore, Snow White’s stepmother ordered her to be killed. The queen sent a huntsman to go to find Snow White and kill her. Snow White hid with the seven dwarfs for her safety from the queen. With many attempts of killing Snow White, she also survived her stepmother’s attacks. For example, her stepmother first attempted to kill her with a lace, a poisonous comb and a poisonous apple. Finally, the queen thought that she was dead. Subsequently, a prince came and saved Snow White from her death. Later, Snow White and the prince fell in love and got married. “‘I love you more than everything in the world; come with me to my father’s palace, you shall be my wife.’” …show more content…

Since she attempted murder against Snow White, she is rated fourth most evil. Not only did she try to poison her, kill her, and stalk her, the queen is an example of one who commits unjust crimes. In addition, Snow White is her stepdaughter. This factor worsens her crime, since it’s a sin to hurt anyone, including her own stepdaughter. The queen's actions is unrelatable to the other evil people. A contributing factor of the queen's actions is jealousy. Since her mirror reveal that Snow White is more beautiful, her envy influenced her to hurt her. Her evil actions were caused by jealousy, which is unjust and is a sinful crime against her stepdaughter. More evil people on the ranking scale murdered a mass of people, or a few innocent people. Meanwhile, less evil people just committed unjust crimes. Therefore, the queens attempted murder is rated fourth on the scale. The queen in the story showed wrongful actions because of jealousy of Snow

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