Snow White

        After reading the different variations of the tale of Snow White and watching the movie Blancanieves, I realized that all of the stories are still pretty similar in a sense.  However, I found the Brothers Grimm version to be the most similar to the silent film.  Although Blancanieves incorporates a different theme with the bullfighting aspect, one can still understand where the tale of Snow White comes into play.  The Brothers Grimm tale is different in the sense that a king and queen are involved instead of a bullfighting champion and his wife; however, both of the men's roles indicate that they are men of power and wealth.  Both stories include the first wife dying during childbirth, and the husband remarrying a woman who becomes the "evil stepmother."  A main difference between both stories is that in the Brothers Grimm tale, Snow White's father does not play a big role at all, unlike in the movie.  In the movie, we see a real connection form between the young girl and her now paralyzed father.  Also, in the Brothers Grimm story, the mirror on the wall is a huge part in the tale and why the evil stepmother wants to kill Snow White, very similar to the Disney movie.  In the movie Blancanieves, Encarna's chauffeur is sent out to kill Carmen and actually believes he does kill her; however, in the Brothers Grimm tale, the huntsman pities her and spares her life.  One major similarity between the movie and the Grimm tale is that the seven dwarfs play a huge role in protecting Snow White and saving her life.  Something we did not see in Blancanieves is the evil stepmother repeatedly trying to kill the young lady until she tries to poison her with the apple at the end, (because for all this time she thinks she is dead, until she sees her as a matador in a magazine).  The poisonous apple is a huge symbol in both stories; however, the stories' endings go down two separate paths, one being a happy ending with prince charming saving Snow White, the other ending in her death.  Although both stories are both very different, the overall premise of the tales is very similar, and anyone could recognize that Blancanieves has many references from the classic tale of Snow White.  I think that both tales were very fascinating, and I especially loved how the film totally depicted the tale in a different way.