For week 13, my second half of my reading notes are based on
the Brothers Grimm story Snow White. Being that I would like to keep my story a
bit on the darker side of the spectrum I chose to include another antagonist
from Snow White. For those of you who
have seen the movie Snow White, I
assume that you remember the evil queen that seeks out all of the beauty and
power across the land. This being so, I decided to incorporate the destructive
wicked queen into my story as one of the main characters working along side the
antagonist Barkins Bittern from Tim Burton’s movie Corpse Bride. In relation to the setting, I still plan on keeping
the Law and Order feel to it except
that now there might be more drama and dialogue between each of the perpetrators
rather than the investigation itself.
Both the queen from Snow
White and Barkins Bittern will combine their villainous desires and
construct a plan so that they both get what they want in the end. For instance,
since Barkins Bittern wants to rob as many brides as possible and murder them
before reporting him to the police and the queen wants Snow White dead so that
she regains the title of ‘fairest of us all’ they decide to come together in
order for the crime to be harder for the police to follow.
They devise a plan where Barkins will first woo over Snow
White then propose to her in a secluded meadow. However, little does she know
the queen carefully dipped the engagement ring in a deadly, but odorless and
transparent chemical. This chemical, in hopes of the queen, will provoke her
death so that Snow White is no longer fairest of them all.
On the other spectrum of the story, before Snow White is
lured into the secluded meadow and is still dating Barkins the seven dwarfs
can’t help but repeatedly warn her that Barkins seems like a bad guy for her
who has the wrong intentions. Snow White being too distracted with these
romantic feelings refuses to acknowledge their concern and consider that they
may be right. Will the seven dwarfs catch on to the queen and Barkins’
malevolent plan before it is too late? Or, will both villains get away with
murder and continue on their malicious behaviors?
The Evil Queen staring into the magic looking-glass from the film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
Bibliography: This story is part of the Brothers Grimm (Crane) unit. Story source: Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Lucy Crane and illustrated by Walter Crane (1886).
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