Snow White And The Seven Dwarves Poem Analysis

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As a kid you grow up listening and reading all these different stories and fairy tales. Some that later benefit your knowledge and way of life, and other that your parents just read to you so you can finally go to sleep for the night. I will say, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” was one of the few that my parents found wasn’t very effective because I enjoyed it. It was originally created by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in Germany in the nineteenth century. A vast majority of my English teachers used this piece to help to teach us how to analyze these poems and us some of the literary terms. The poem gave me the idea of a “childhood fairy tale” until I heard Anne Sexton’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.” She gives a completely different look at the historical fairy tale and brings the females perspective of it. Sexton focuses on how we are brought up as children to believe that women are inferior to men. It kind of gives me the idea that maybe this how our society is possible be being portrayed. The story’s unusual darkness and violence of this version may surprise readers how Anne Sexton breaks down the real societal issues of why women are inferior to men.
Anne Sexton’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” brings women to light. Violence, beauty, purity, and male dominance are more than just themes in this poem. They are real life societal issues that are leaving women behind in the dark to just be perceived as simple minded and not beautiful. Everything you thing you read that you think may be in our best interest is not always correct. These fairy tales that our children are hearing about to today are teaching them that women are all beauty and no brains and should be submissive to the male species. By doing so, it makes be port...

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... her. She brings the major conflict to the plot where time after time she tries to come across the simple empty minded Snow White and attempts to kill her by giving her the poisoned apples.
Sexton put in a lot of hard work to be able to tie together all the themes together to help see the big picture as a whole. The societal issues women faced back in time are still present today. Our children are being raised to perceive that women are inferior to men. This poem shows that a woman's purity, beauty, and intelligence are all referred to as “things”. Which makes them out to be worthless and lifeless and in need of men to fill their souls and spirits. At the end of the day these elements are the reason the male species is being portrayed as the all mighty strong man who above all dominance is leaving the simple minded beautiful women like Snow White inferior to them.

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