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Themes in Fairy and Folk Tales - Coggle Diagram
Themes in Fairy and Folk Tales
Humans and Nature
Unicorn frees Yvaine when she was tied to a tree. The unicorn dissolved the chain she had on her.
When Tristian is about to drink poisoned wine, a unicorn knocks it out of his hand, saving him.
A tiny girl grew inside a bamboo stalk, right before a bamboo cutter's eyes.
The baby girl is amused with nature, and loves to see all the animals and plants around her.
Village children call the baby princess Lil' Bamboo because of how fast she is growing... the village children associate nature to humans.
Princess sings a song about nature with the village children and somehow knows it even though she has only been alive for a very short time.
Father sees another glowing bamboo stalk, and inside he finds gold.
Princess and older village boy steal fruit and when they are not caught, they enjoy eating it immensely.
Princess draws nature instead of practicing handwriting. She also asks to plant things in her mother's garden later in the story.
The princess is gifted a bird in a cage, but lets it go. This is a metaphor for how she is in a cage.
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While Snow White is escaping from her murder, the woods are dark and fearsome, and they seem to torment her.
Animals in the woods find Snow White and cuddle with her, and then lead her to shelter.
The animals help Snow White clean the cottage.
Once the animals see the Evil Queen, they rush to get the dwarves.
Love
Man goes to magical shop and learns that the price for a good luck flower is a kiss - He ends up conceiving a child with the seller.
Later the man's son tries to win the love of Victoria. He believes her love will make him happy.
Tristian realizes that though he is going to great lengths to prove his love for Victoria, she is not doing anything for him in return.
Yvaine falls in love with Tristian and her glowing could end up giving her away.
Captain whispers that Tristian's true love was really in front of him, but audience doesn't fin out until later.
Tristian thinks immortality would be lonely without someone to share it with.
While Tristian is turned into a mouse, Yvaine confides that seeing love was the only redeemable thing about Earth when she observed. She confesses her love for him while he is in that form.
Tristian understood proclamation, and they figure out that they love each other.
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On the Pirate ship Yvaine and Tristian learn skills and have fun.
In the end, Tristian and Yvaine, as King and Queen, ruled for 80 years (they survived because Tristian had Yvaine's heart {love}) and then went to the sky and lived happily ever after. They also had children followed by grandchildren.
Lots of men try to give the princess offers for marriage, and she gets many gifts.
Princess does not want to be married.
Princess' parents ask to be taken with her so they can be together.
Snow White wishes into a wishing well that her love will find her. A prince comes and sings to her of his devotion.
To entertain the dwarves, Snow White tells them a story about how her true love prince will come for her some day.
The only antidote to the death apple is true love's first kiss.
When the dwarves leave, Snow White kisses them on the head, and they all like it.
The prince kisses Snow White and wakes her up and they ride off together to get married and be happy.
Happiness
Bamboo cutter, wife, and baby princess are all happy together as a little family.
Princess loves playing with the village children and being in the forests and wildlife.
Princess is joyful with her new mansion, beautiful clothes, and material things.
The mother has a little cottage at the edge of the mansion with simpler things, to make her feel more at home.
Lady Sagami thinks that marriage is happiness, and vice versa.
Princess was very happy and the suitor's failures,
Princess visits her old home and is reunited with the older village boy from childhood. They fly together and nature blooms, but then the princess feels she is being taken and falls into the ocean. The boy wakes up, and it is revealed that he has a family and a child already.
Snow White and the seven dwarves all sing and have fun together at the cottage.
Snow White is very happy when she gets to be with the Prince and is saved from her previous, tormented life.
Unhappiness
Tristian worries that he will not be good enough for Victoria.
All witches are discontented with being old and ugly, and when one turns youthful and beautiful, she is incredibly happy. and the others are jealous.
Tristian cuts off a piece of Yvaine's hair while she sleeps to present to Victoria. The inn keeper messed up the message, so he told Yvaine that Tristian was going for his true love, Victoria, even though he really was in love with Yvaine.
When the princess wanders away, her father screams and cries and frantically tries to find her.
Princess has to leaver her friends and whole life because her father built a large mansion for her in the city. When she has to leave, she is sad.
Princess comes of age, yet is not allowed to invite her village friends to her banquet.
The princess feels sad and completely useless at her own banquet.
When the princess overhears some men's ideas of her really being ugly, she flees and runs super fast, all they way out to the country side.
On her short time, the a child runs into her while she is in awe at nature. The child's family apologizes and runs away from her regal garb.
Princess cries when older village boy is beat up in front of her in the city.
Princess unhappy because she fells that she is a fake.
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The Queen is very unhappy just because of her jealousy and spite for Snow White.
When Snow White dies, the dwarves can't bear to bury her because of her beauty, and they all guard her. They are incredibly sad.
Goodness
Throughout the movie, the Yvaine( the star) seems innocent, naïve, and nice.
The stars in the sky tell Tristian to save Yvaine from trap.
Tristian admits that even if he didn't know Yvaine, he doesn't think he could kill anyone for immortality.
When the older boy falls and hurts himself, the princess tries to go and help him get better.
Nature is beautiful, and though it can be dangerous it was mainly illustrated as a good force in the movie.
Snow White is kind, gentle, animals love her, and she takes care of the dwarves.
The Dwarfs are so charmed by Snow White that they rush to save her, even though they don't know her very well.
Evil
When Tristian confessed his feelings for Victoria, her boyfriend came and humiliated him. This is classic Tyrant behavior.
When the King is on his Deathbed, one of his sons murders the other right in front of everyone.
Tristian forces the fallen star to come with him so he can win Victoria's hand in marriage, regardless of her suffering and complaints.
One Prince kills a rune man who lead him astray because his brother put the rune man up to misleading the Prince. The Prince who killed didn't that about the rune man being used, he only saw him as something in his way.
Tristian's mother takes control of the wagon from her master and rushes to warn Yvaine that she will die if she crosses the gap in the wall. She will face consequences, but does it anyway.
When the Princess gets distracted and wanders away from her father during work, she goes off deeper into the forest. Here she comes across cute baby wild pigs, but the mom charges her and she is saved by an older boy.
Lady Sagami, the princess' teacher, tries to force her into a makeover and tries to get her to be stiff and "noble".
Some people during the banquet frown upon the princess for not really being royalty.
The King tries to grab the princess to take her away, but she vanishes. The king thinks she will be happy if she is his.
Princess fights against the moon people's ideas of perfection and purity, but they put a robe on her and she automatically joins them.
The evil queen is fearful of Snow White's beauty, so forces her to be a maid.
The queen orders her huntsman to take Snow White into the woods and kill her because one day her magic mirror said Snow White is the most beautiful, and not the queen.
The Evil Queen decides to use her dark magic to disguise herself and ultimately kill Snow White with a death apple.
The Evil Queen disguised herself as an old woman and came to the cottage. She offered Snow White the poisoned apple.
When the dwarves show up, they chase the queen, who, when trying to launch a boulder on the dwarves, falls on a cliff and dies.
Selfishness & Selflessness
Princes are so selfish that one poisons his brother and a bishop to claim the throne.
The young witch turned a boy into a goat to get him out of the way.
When two powerful, evil witches crossed paths, the young one who was more powerful made sure the other won't take the star's heart before the young one could via dark magic.
Witch magically creates an inn in order to catch the star and eat her heart to become young.
Witch tries to poison prince, but prince refuses the tainted wine. Then she slits his throat a little later.
Final Prince also wants to get star so he can be king forever.
Witch curses shop owner to make him squawk like a chicken.
Prince kills annoying, squawking shop owner.
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Father tries to give the princess the life he thinks she needs, but in his selflessness, he isn't building the life the princess actually wants.
The father wants princess to be happy, so he wants her to go to his majesty's court.
Everything the father did was for the princess' good.
Father is determined and gathers warriors to defend the princess and keep her from being taken away. This is both selfish and selfless, selfish so he can keep his daughter, selfless because she doesn't want to leave either.
Evil queen is so selfish and wants to be the most beautiful so bad, that she wants Snow White dead.
The huntsman spares Snow White even though he could get in trouble with the queen.
Some dwarves think Snow White should stay, others don't, but they end up letting her because of her cleaning, keeping house, but mostly cooking. Selfish.
Mistakes in Life
Captain's true identity is revealed when the Prince and his fighters stormed his boat. His crew defeats them (though the Prince escaped) and assure him he will always be their captain, even though he isn't as fearsome as he pretended to be.
The princess thinks she could've been happy is she had stayed with her village.
Other Major Themes
Material Objects and their Connotation with Love
Tristian proves his love with a material object.
When five very noble suitors try to win the Princess' hand through poetry, they compare her to objects. The princess then asks them to prove their love to her by getting these objects, but because of their embellishments, this is an impossible task. She says if they can bring her these things, she will marry them.
Three years later, one of the suitors got the object, but really it was fake. The 2nd was also fake. This causes the princess to wonder if she is just a fake prize to them, not an actual amazing thing.
Deception
Witch pretends to be kind in order to get Yvaine happy and then steal her happy heart.
When Tristian and Yvaine are captured by Pirates, originally the captain is horrible and threatens them, and even pretends to kill one. But later he is very hospitable, gives them makeovers, and is kind and loves fashion.
Captain and Tristian pretend to objectify Yvaine to keep up the deception of being "tough" and "scary".
Final living witch pretends to be heartbroken at her sister's deaths, and "lets Yvain and Tristian go", only to trap them This restored Yvaine's glow, meaning her heart was better.
Father (bamboo cutter) original doesn't tell his wife about finding a lot of gold.
Princess' maid pretends to be the princess to save her from having to marry a prince, because the prince was surprised and rude because she was not as beautiful as he imagined.
The Evil Queen disguised herself and pretended to be hurt to win Snow White's pity and utilize her goodness.
Royalty
Tristian, once a simple town-boy, really had royal blood, and became king after getting the necklace the King enchanted at the beginning. Yvaine was Queen now too.
Once the bamboo cutter sees the tiny girl, he immediately thinks she is a princess.
When the father finds expensive material in a bamboo tree, he knows that he is being told to have the princess grow up royal.
Princess laughs at her parent's attempts to be royal.
While the princess is naturally good at everything royalty should (i.e. music), she protests to the imprisonment of emotions she is expected to have.
After being reappearing at the mansion after fleeing, the princess is a new person and is devoted to becoming royalty. She is studious, but sad.
The dwarves are surprised to learn Snow White is the princess.
Movie's Style
Human actors meant CGI, but more "realistic" looking.
The animation makes it seems like a tale from long ago, and can use different techniques to illustrate the feeling of the part. For example, when the princess runs away, the style is frantic and general, and very dark. It also means that mystical and/or impossible things fit in with the style of the whole film, and isn't as glaringly off as CGI.
The older music and animation style made Snow White seem more dated, and the animation style made it possible for animals to have more facial expressions and seem more human. It also personified trees and the forest.