Brothers Grimm or Disney

When most children are young, they learn the story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs. Little girls are intrigued by her beauty and innocence and of how her prince charming comes to rescue her and take her off to live happily ever after.
The Brothers Grimm version of Snow White is more gruesome and bold than the Disney version. It begins with Snow White’s mother pricking her finger on a needle and dropping blood on the snow. She wished for a child as “white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood in the window frame” (Bell).
It has Snow White’s mother dying giving birth to her and has the king remarry a beautiful woman. This woman turned out to be proud and haughty and could not bear for anyone to be fairer than she (Bell). She would look into her magic mirror and ask, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is fairest of us all?” and the mirror would always answer, “Queen, thou art the fairest of us all” (Bell).
One day the queen asked her mirr...