Metaphors In Snow White

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“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” Snow White has come of age and is now the fairest of them all, and must escape the evil queen and her dark magic, with help from the magpies aiding her escape. Ravenna isn’t happy about the revelation, continuing to talk to the magical mirror she learns that Snow White will be her undoing. Frightened that the young princess would take her kingdom and eternal youth away, she sends her brother to fetch the young lady. Magpies play a big role in helping Snow throughout the movie, they fly to her cell window and she sees a loose nail protruding from the outer walls of the castle. Finally after escaping the cell shes been imprisoned in for years, she escapes but is seen by a guard, the …show more content…

When Snow White was in the forest, Ravenna used her dark magic to appear to Snow White as William, her childhood best friend. A foreshadowing moment would be when Snow and William were younger and he gave her an apple. Just like when they were younger, William gives her an apple, unfortunately not just a regular apple, a poisoned one. Falling down on her back, Snow White has the realization that in fact it wasn’t William, but Ravenna. When the huntsman awakens from his sleep he notices Snow isn’t there, waking William they take to the forest to find the young women. After seeing her laying on her back with an unknown person crouched above her, they run to the girls rescue. William and Eric interrupt Ravenna and she reforms into a bunch of black birds. The blackbirds start attacking the two men as they swing their swords at them. Appearing back at the castle, all the crows drop to the floor dead or dying, as she comes from this black substance on the floor, seemingly weakened because she hasn’t consumed youth and is growing older. In the beginning we get to see how she attains her youth, by sucking it out of the young. Ravenna truly has dark magic and the crows represent that.

Snow White came of age and is now the fairest of them all and Ravenna can’t have that, and that’s what started her journey to escape. Snow White brings life to the forest that lost its luster when Ravenna started

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