The Importance Of Fear In Michael Cohn's 'Snow White'

Fear causes people to make decisions that they usually wouldn’t normally make. The minds natural instinct when initially afraid of something is to enter what many people call fight or flight mode. Someone could have every intention of doing one thing but when fear sets in the mind naturally starts rationalizing different decisions and people act on those instincts within seconds. Both Claudia, the evil step mother and Lily, the princess are forced to make instinct decision based on their fears of each other. In an initial reading, the scene in Michael Cohn’s Snow White: A Tale of Terror in which the main character Lily returns to her family’s castle to confront her evil step mother Claudia and to save her father seems to argue that women are

The audience can see this fearful scene unfold at the end of the movie when Lily and Claudia meet face to face and by examining her choice to stab the mirror instead of stabbing Claudia when presented with the opportunity to finally take down the evil villain shows Lily as a coward for not physically killing her. However, stabbing the mirror works out in Lily’s favor because the mirror and Claudia are somehow connected but she doesn’t know that stabbing the mirror will actually cause pain to Claudia at the time when she took a stab at it. Lily was simply too afraid to physically stab Claudia herself because Lily is still a young fragile girl. When looking at the princess’s actions through the folktale of the Grimm brothers, after snow white wakes up she cheerfully goes with her prince away to get married and instead of immediately confronting her evil step mother about her action or seeking revenge she invites her to her wedding feast. At the feast Snow White had iron slippers heated for her step mother to put on but she doesn’t confront her for her evil crimes against her which shows how she is a coward and afraid of her step mother that she just has iron slippers brought out instead of facing her herself. When analyzing the Grimm brother’s folktale of the princess’s death sentencing

Claudia also tried to kill Lily several times with no luck until she gave her the apple but even after that she was still brought back to life which provokes fear in Claudia when she sees her again in the final scene because she’s afraid of her coming back into her life and destroying things again. The audience can see this fear in the scene where on the way to her chamber Claudia attacks someone in a dark hallway and kicks them through a window leading to their death. Claudia thought that this was Lily and acted quickly and irrationally out of fear that she didn’t even have time to see that it wasn’t actually Lily but her fiancé, the doctor. When analyzing the evil queen from the Grimm brother’s version of “Snow White” the queen is overcome by fear and unable to move when she sees snow white for the first time alive again since she poisoned her. The queen from the folktale allowed her fear to stop her dead in her tracts whereas Claudia channeled her fear into violence in her desperate attempt to finally have things her way. Claudia’s fearless actions