- The Disney version of Snow White obviously has a much lighter tone than the Brothers Grimm version. The message is still the same, but the actions less grotesque.
- The Queen still asks for one of Snow White's organs, but it is the heart not the liver and lungs, and she keeps it in a box. This is a step below cannibalism.
- She only tries to kill Snow White twice, however, she does go to a greater length that the Queen in the story by actually transforming herself into a hag. The Brothers Grimm Queen merely disguised herself with make up and a costume. The Queen in Disney's version, actually changes her shape. I would argue that although this Queen's methods are less barbaric, she might be even more blinded by jealousy in that not only does she not care if she dies trying to kill snow white but also has given up her beauty to do so (yes, she can change back but that she could even live with looking so ugly is an important detail to note).
- Disney's Evil Queen also dies at the end of the story but not in the same way. Instead of being tortured and humiliated, she falls from a cliff, while trying to crush the dwarfs with a boulder. Although the Brothers Grimm's Queen dies beautiful, I think falling to one's death might better than dancing to death in burning hot slippers in front of the person you hate the most. The Disney Queen at least thought she had succeeded and that Snow White had died, but the original Queen's last living image is of Snow White having everything.
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