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Neil gaiman snow white retelling6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The queen will later fight against Snow White in order to save her kingdom. ![]() Even more curiously, the queen is described as a young woman in love with the king, but stricken with terror by her stepdaughter. As told in the story by Neil Gaiman though, it reveals him to be a lust-driven necrophiliac that takes what he desires (one of those things happening to be the queen earlier in the story). The prince is presented once again as a love-struck prince, in awe of the beauty of the dead body of Snow White. This description is almost exactly the same as the description given in the previous version of the story, but interestingly enough when described in the given circumstances (being resurrected in the woods) the description seems much scarier. She is described as an adult at the age of twelve, as well as pale skinned, her eyes coal black, and her lips as red as blood. Snow White is presented as an incestuous creature or vampire that preyed on her own father. ![]() The interesting part of this though, is that while maintaining the story in its basic sense, he completely changes the story’s meaning by altering the characters and their motivations. In the story, “Snow, Glass, Apples” Neil Gaiman parallels the archaic story, “Snow White” by reusing a familiar story structure, and retelling the story in his own manner. ![]()
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