Chapter 15 Snow White and the Mirror Queen

"Snow White" is one of the most exciting chapters in the book. In the snowy season, the queen gave birth to a little princess. Her skin was as white as snow, her lips were as red as blood, and her hair was as black as ebony. Her name was "Snow White". Shortly after Snow White was born, the queen died of illness.The king married a new queen, the new queen was very beautiful, but jealous very heavy. The new queen has a magic mirror. Whenever she stands in front of the magic mirror to do her makeup, she reflects her beautiful image in the mirror and asks: Magic mirror, who is the most beautiful person in this world?The magic mirror will tell her: Queen, queen, you are the most beautiful person.She will be satisfied when she hears it.

Snow White grew up day by day and became more and more beautiful. When she was seven years old, she was already dazzlingly beautiful.At this time, when the queen asked the magic mirror which woman was the most beautiful in the world, the magic mirror replied: Queen, queen, although you are very beautiful, Snow White is more beautiful than you. The queen was so jealous that she sent a hunter to kill Snow White in the forest and bring back her heart to testify.The hunter took Snow White to the depths of the forest, but he couldn't bear to kill her, so he let her go, then hunted a wild deer, and brought back the heart of the wild deer to the queen for a mission.

Snow White finds a cabin in the forest, in which live seven dwarfs who go out to mine gold every day.The seven dwarfs accepted her.They went out to dig gold every day, and Snow White prepared food for them at home.They live in harmony like this. One day, the queen asked the magic mirror again: "Which woman is the most beautiful in this world?"The magic mirror told her the truth: Although the queen is very beautiful, Snow White is even more beautiful. She is even more radiant in the cabin far away in the forest. Knowing that the hunter has deceived her, the queen decides to get rid of Snow White herself.She put on makeup and dressed up as an unrecognizable old woman, and came to the cabin in the forest, claiming that she was a ribbon seller, and provoked Snow White to violate the rule of the seven dwarfs who told her not to open the door to strangers when they went out every day. Training.She opened the door, intending to buy the old woman's ribbon, but was strangled to death by the queen with the ribbon.

After the seven dwarfs came back, they untied the ribbon around Snow White's neck and revived her; once again, they taught her never to open the door again when she saw a stranger. The queen disguised herself as a wooden comb seller, came to the forest, tricked Snow White into opening the door of the cabin, and inserted the poisonous wooden comb into Snow White's hair, and Snow White suddenly fell down from poison.The queen slipped away quickly, and when the seven dwarfs came back, they pulled out the comb and rescued Snow White again. The proud queen thought she had killed Snow White, but the magic mirror told her that Snow White was still alive, and she was still more beautiful than her.For the third time she came to the forest in disguise, and lured open the wooden door with a poisoned apple.Snow White just took a bite of the apple when she fell to the ground and died.This time, the seven dwarfs couldn't save her again.Sadly, they put Snow White in a glass coffin and took turns watching over her.The queen finally saw herself invincible in the magic mirror, and she had become the most beautiful woman in the world.

One day, the handsome prince took a group of people to hunt in the forest, saw Snow White lying in a glass coffin, and couldn't help falling in love with her.He begged the seven dwarfs to give him Snow White.The seven dwarfs refused at first, but later saw that he was sincerely in love with Snow White, so they agreed. The prince asked his entourage to lift the glass coffin and walk back.On the way, the coffin bearer tripped over a tree root, and the glass coffin was shaken when it fell to the ground. Snow White spat out the poisonous apple in her mouth. She woke up and sat up from the glass coffin.The prince expressed his love to her and proposed to her, and she also fell in love with the prince, so she agreed.

When the prince and Snow White held a grand wedding, the queen also received an invitation.Before going to the wedding, she asked the magic mirror again: Who is the most beautiful in this world? The magic mirror told her: The prince's bride is the most beautiful.Although she was jealous, she decided to attend the wedding to see what the bride was like.At the wedding, she was petrified when she recognized the bride as Snow White.At this time, a pair of iron shoes placed on the coal fire was clamped and placed in front of her with pliers. She had to wear the fiery red shoes and jumped until she fell to the ground and died.

Let's start parsing this fairy tale. In this story that has been read thousands of times, what things are hidden that people may not be very clear about? One, in this story, the king is in name only and does not play any role.All readers seem to accept this fact without questioning it; but it is one that is especially worth investigating. The king, queen and Snow White make up a family.The king's existence is in name only, but it shows that in this special family, men have no interference in the relationship between their wives and daughters.It may be that he does not have this right, or it may be that he simply ignores things in the family.

Once you understand the problem from this perspective, you will find similar situations in quite a few fairy tales. When the daughter and the mother, especially the stepmother, have conflicts, the father often does not exist, or the existence is useless. This metaphorically symbolizes a family pattern: one that lacks the influence of the father. Second, in this fairy tale, the queen holding the magic mirror appears as a stepmother. Her persecution of Snow White and the process of Snow White growing up in this persecution are the main lines of the story. Fierce stepmothers often appear in fairy tales of various nationalities; and the little girl who grows up under the oppression of her stepmother is often the sympathetic and lovable protagonist in these fairy tales.The process of their pursuit of happiness is also the process of getting rid of the persecution of their stepmother.

Perhaps in real life, the stepmother does have a tendency to abuse her ex-wife and children. It is not incomprehensible when fairy tales use the stepmother's abuse as the opposite of the young heroine's pursuit of happiness. However, when we see similar little girls in many fairy tales who grow up in the environment of stepmothers and rarely discover the existence of their biological mothers, we slowly delve into the depths of the matter. We have to say that the stepmother in these fairy tales is actually a transformed image of the biological mother. Stepmothers exist, but they are not a common social phenomenon after all, while biological mothers who are rude and domineering to their daughters are not uncommon.The stepmother is actually a symbol of this type of birth mother.Here's what we've found in stories of this type.

Three, in this way, the jealousy of the queen with the magic mirror towards Snow White has a real meaning, which is actually the jealousy of a mother towards her daughter, and the jealousy of a woman from one generation to a girl from the next. This kind of jealousy can be seen in many literary works by careful readers. You can even see such a typical example in life.In some families, the mother shows very obvious jealousy towards the growing daughter, and various practices of ostracizing the daughter arise from this. Of course, extremes of maternal jealousy are rare; but general jealousy and repulsion may be pervasive in an unnoticed manner.

This kind of motherly jealousy is essentially wifely jealousy. Fourth, in this way, we can understand why the magic mirror told the queen that she was no longer the most beautiful woman in the world when Snow White was seven years old, and that Snow White had surpassed her. This is a portrayal of real life. A newborn daughter will not be too irritating to her mother, and it is difficult to arouse her more jealousy.Even if the husband loves the little baby girl very much, the mother still regards the daughter more as a young life that needs to be taken care of by herself. However, as the daughter grows up day by day, showing more and more obvious sexual characteristics, more and more beautiful, and the relationship with her father is getting closer, the mother must bear a kind of stimulation and pressure. A seven-year-old daughter may have given a little more expression to her mother's jealousy.There is no doubt that there is a "life basis" for the magic mirror to issue a notice at this moment. Fifth, under the persecution of the mirror queen, Snow White leaves the palace and runs into the forest. The persecution of the mirror queen can be regarded as the mother's rejection of her daughter in life. From the understanding of the role of Snow White, she left the palace and came to the big forest, which can be regarded as the tendency of daughters to run away from home when avoiding the pressure of their mothers in life. This is a tendency that comes naturally in girls as they grow up. Six or seven dwarfs appeared in the cabin in the forest, and they undoubtedly had great significance in Snow White's life. For a little girl running away from her family, the seven dwarfs will be her companions, like the boys a girl usually meets in life.She grew up with their sanitation and help, and without these little friends, she would never really grow up. If we do a more in-depth exploration of the roles played by the seven dwarfs, we find that they are not exactly like the little girl's peers, but more like her elder brothers. The dwarfs protect her like a little sister. Further experience the emotional relationship between the seven dwarfs and Snow White, and you may discover a more hidden meaning: the care and protection of the seven dwarfs for Snow White has a meaning of paternal love. Every time they earnestly warned before going out, and their rescues again and again, they all enveloped the young and innocent little girl like a father's love.This is less like the care of boys of the same age for girls, and more like the protection of girls by parents.Especially when they have the right to guard the glass coffin of Snow White who was poisoned to death, and have the power to give Snow White in the glass coffin to the prince, they are obviously full of father roles. No matter how unconscious the narrator is, no matter how distant the seven dwarfs are from the image of their father, the role of the father and the function of the father are infiltrated through these plots.When the seven dwarfs gave Snow White in the glass coffin to the prince who fell in love with her sincerely, it was like a father who inspected his son-in-law and married his beloved daughter with confidence. If we have a little deeper understanding of the story of "Snow White", we will find that the care and protection of Snow White by the seven dwarfs in the forest is quite like the attitude of a father who fears his wife towards his daughter.He didn't dare to disobey his wife openly, so he could only take care of his daughter secretly.All the behavior of the seven dwarfs towards Snow White is a miraculous portrayal of such a cowardly and kind father. This may be the current situation of parents and families faced by many little girls. The poetic and picturesque "Snow White" was actually produced in a very ordinary secular life. Seven, the prince is naturally the girl's ideal lover. After finding him, the girl left her parents and lived an independent and happy life.At this time, whether her mature beauty and successful marriage will arouse the mother's faint jealousy cannot be completely denied. Eighth, in the end, we saw the magic mirror in the queen's hand, which may be a judgment in her heart, a monologue in her heart, an emotion that tortured her, and a psychological activity. The queen in "Snow White" has such a "magic mirror". Do other women also have "magic mirrors"? In any case, not to be tortured by such a "magic mirror" is the wisdom and virtue that every mother should have. Corresponding to the "Electra complex" formed by the daughter who loves her father and hates her mother since she was a child, the mother may also have a complex of rejecting her daughter to some extent.With the help of the story of "Snow White", we call this complex the "Queen's Mirror Complex". As far as the subconscious is concerned, every mother has more or less similar complexes.However, for a woman who has successfully suppressed and overcome the Elektra complex in the history of personality growth, it is relatively easy to overcome the "Queen's Mirror Complex".And those women whose Elektra complex has been deformed since childhood, once they become mothers in adulthood, they will show comparisons with their daughters. Serious "queen mirror complex". The strength of the "Queen's Mirror Complex" is regular: First of all, we found that the queen's mirror complex's jealousy towards her daughter is actually an extension of women's jealousy towards other homosexuals. Those women who are jealous of the same sex in life tend to have a stronger Queen's Mirror complex for their daughters; on the contrary, those women who can live in harmony with the same sex will treat their daughters more gently and generously. The essence of Queen's Mirror Complex is jealousy, and it naturally has a similar law to general jealousy. Then, we can also find that those women who are psychologically immature as mothers, especially those who are full of personality and still play the role of daughters in front of their husbands after marriage, are especially likely to regard their growing daughters as opponents. Some women will still indulge in the urge to be a young daughter even after they are adults, and they may have faint rejection from the first day of their daughter's birth.When the husband picked up the infant daughter from her side and kissed it with a smile on his face, the mother lying on the bed had an unbearable excitement in her heart. On the contrary, those women whose mothers are psychologically mature and have the role of a big woman can often treat their daughters with enough kindness.Especially those women who take care of their husbands as little boys are especially able to treat their daughters with a generous attitude. Then, we will find that the smaller the age gap between mother and daughter, the stronger the queen's mirror complex may be; and the larger the age gap between mother and daughter, the weaker the mirror complex is.If she has more than one daughter, it is natural for the mother to tend to be more resistant to the older daughter and more lenient towards the younger daughter. This is the same as general jealousy.Jealousy is often inversely proportional to mutual distance; this is true whether it is same-sex jealousy or peer jealousy. Then, we will also find that the mother's queen's magic mirror complex gradually increases within a certain period of time as the daughter grows up. When a daughter is just born, direct maternal love may be the whole psychology of the mother; as the daughter grows up and has a more and more formed girl role in front of the father, the mother has more and more obvious stimulation.Every growth and change of a daughter will bring pure joy to the father, and while bringing joy to the mother, it may also bring some complicated emotions. Of course, the vast majority of mothers do not persecute their daughters like the mirror queen, however, they may unconsciously reject their daughters to some extent.Especially when she has a son, the rejection of the daughter is contrasted with the preference for the son. For most mothers, the "Queen's Mirror Complex" may be suppressed and overcome by human culture; but for a few mothers, it may become a psychological existence that tortures her for a long time.This kind of complex will lead to all kinds of behaviors of rejecting her daughter in real life, so it is expressed in the image of "Queen of Magic Mirror" in art. Snow White and the Mirror Queen IV "Snow White" is of course mainly the story of Snow White. However, there is probably no Snow White in the world, but there are girls of this type. "Snow White" is the dream of this kind of girl. They are as unprotected by their father as Snow White.They live outside of their father's care and neglect. These girls, like Snow White, have a lonely sadness.They are lonely little beings. They are ostracized by a stepmother, or more broadly, by a mother who lacks maternal love.They trembled under the stern gaze of their mother, and kept silent under the cold face of their mother.As they grow up day by day, if they think they are beautiful, they will really become "Snow White". Such little girls, when they face the snowy world, will have infinite longing and fantasies. The story of "Snow White" emerges from this longing and fantasy. They fantasized and longed for fatherly love, fantasized and longed for many kind men to protect them, like that kind hunter, like the seven dwarfs. As long as they have such protection, they can run away from the family and run into the big forest as much as possible. They may have conflicts with their mothers again and again in fantasy. Every time, it is the mother who hurts them, and they repay their hatred with kindness.When the Queen used ribbons, wooden combs, and poisoned apples to hurt Snow White again and again, Snow White was always kind.In this storyline, it is proven that the mother's rejection is completely wrong and excessive. Snow White finally finds the noble prince who loves her wholeheartedly, and finds the real happiness in life. In this way, the little girl finally avenged the abuse her mother had inflicted since she was a child.The daughter has grown up and is more beautiful than her mother, and she has found a husband who is no less than her father. The mirror queen can only dance non-stop with red-hot iron shoes, and is forced to express her unstoppable congratulations on her daughter's wedding. All these constitute the complete complex of Snow White. This is the complex of a girl who was neglected by her father and rejected by her mother since she was a child; this is a complex that yearns for the protection of her father and a father-like man, and finally happily combines with Prince Charming to defeat and revenge her mother. Such girls who have the same fate as Snow White may have deeply buried "Snow White complex". In a broader sense, "Snow White" is again a story for all girls. Because all girls have "Electra Complex" to varying degrees. "Snow White complex" is not the same as Elektra complex, it is the special fruit of Elektra complex in a certain environment; however, Elektra complex can make all girls understand Snow White Princess. The story of "Snow White" is a kind and sad longing and fantasy; what the little girl is waiting for in this kind and sad fantasy is the gift of fate.If the Mirror Queen is a symbol of the whole unfair fate, then the story of "Snow White" just shows that she is resignedly waiting for the opportunity to present itself. The "Snow White complex" looks beautiful, but it is actually weak. It rarely creates the motivation for positive behavior, and it rarely bears the fruit of real happiness.