what are the deeper meanings and origins of the Story " SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs"?

Question

Who is She ,her Father ,the step Mother,the 7 Dwarfs,The Birds who visited her as She lay in the glass coffin and the Prince?
Symbolically, the question of the poisioned comb ,the scarf and the Beautiful Apple ,poisioned on one side ?
Do the "deaths" of Snow White have symbolic meaning?
And the Mirror?

Answer 1

A version, that did not seem completely similar, of Snow White is to be found in the Grimm's Fairy Tales; I think it is originally a German story ("Schneewittchen" is her name if I recall.)

I don't think the story was originally meant to be symbolic, but people are usually pretty good at deciding something is a symbol for something else even when the creator intended no such thing. One could say the apple is like the queen herself, beautiful but poison inside; or that the apple is a fertility symbol, and that the story is really about an older woman losing her sexual desireability to the younger generation, and so she is trying to poison that desireablitiy; or that the apple is a stand in for the queen herself; or that the apple is either red like hatred or green like envy. Really, if you just sit there making stuff up, someone will agree with you and decide the item has deep meaning.

I would say, however, it is very probably the "talking" of the mirror is symbolic for just how one feels when looking in the mirror, The Queen looks in the mirror every day and sees how pretty she is, until one day -- suddenly she realizes she isn't so pretty anymore, and that her step-daughter is much better looking. Seeing this infuses her with jealousy and hatred, hence the mirror "tells" her to kill Snow White.

Answer 2

The Seven Deadly Sins are really attitudes that underlie sins, whether mortal or venial, first identified by St. John Cassian (360 - 435) and refined by Pope St. Gregory the Great (540 - 604). They provide keys to understanding our faults and the actions that result, and a framework for self knowledge. If we understood how they factor into who we have become, we would understand much more about ourselves and our effect on others. The Seven Deadly Sins never occur as a list in the Bible, but occur many times individually. These sins were identified as a group around the same time as the Bible was being translated into a single language. Rather than these sins being identified in a single place in the Bible, they are found all through it, from Genesis to Revelation. The letters of the New Testament mention all of these, and many others as well. The Catechism has many Scriptural references in the section that lists the "Seven Deadly Sins." It is well to remember that the Scriptures come from the Jewish and Christian Churches, not the other way around. In both cases, faith preceded the writing.

Answer 3

If you try to live a pure White as Snow life many will try to kill you and make you feel worthless............but seven which is a number of completion dwarfs......which mean we are taken care of...............and in the end the world looks good but watch out what you bite into..............but death cant hold someone pure and white as snow.................in the end all turns out .................for the good

Answer 4

No idea what the deeper meaning is, but:
Did you know that Snow White thought that 7up was a cool drink before she met the dwarfs???????

Answer 5

well in the original the stepmother goes through several poisoned items before the apple finally works on Snow White. And she ultimately ends up coughing out the piece of apple she ate. In addition, when the stepmother comes to Snow White's wedding, they tie her up and put red-hot iron shoes on her and make her dance until she dies of exhaustion.

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/white10.html

Answer 6

which version of snow white?

Answer 7

That little men do live in the forest.......its a fairy tale....