A Modern Adaptation of Anne Sexton’s Snow White . The words rang in her ears, a siren that couldn’t be silenced. It pierced her, a sound that dragged her into insanity. It beckoned night and day, digging her deeper and deeper into the darkness of her own mind, her own heart. My beautiful girl. My […]
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Since this month’s theme is “Fairytales,” I’ve decided to reflect on the advice and life lessons behind some of my favorite childhood fairytales. To start, let’s consider some of Walt Disney’s classics. The Little Mermaid Ariel wishes to be a human when she is only a mermaid, she loves a man against her father’s […]
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“Queen you shall be, until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.” – A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin Previously in this column, we discussed the character of Snow White. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar in Madwoman in the Attic describe […]
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Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, Who’s the fairest of them all? Snow White was the first Disney animated feature film, and as fairytales have become popular again, she’s become one of the major fairytales being retold, from Mirror, Mirror to Snow White and the Huntsman to Once Upon a Time. There’s something magical about Snow […]
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