Snow White conveys ideals of female submission and purity.
You think there’s no message in the different moral judgment we are expected to have for Snow White vs. the Wicked Queen? Something about vanity, plus it doesn’t hurt to notice that the morally upright woman is also better looking.
You think there’s no message in the different moral judgment we are expected to have for Snow White vs. the Wicked Queen? Something about vanity, plus it doesn’t hurt to notice that the morally upright woman is also better looking.
By hypothesis, the Wicked Queen is the second most beautiful woman in the land. This seems to weaken that point.
Oh, of course there is a social message there. I think eridu was asking whether I thought it was genetically determined.