As a child you grow up listening to and reading all these different stories and fairy tales. Some that will later benefit your knowledge and lifestyle, and others that your parents read to you so you can finally go to sleep for the night. I have to say that "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was one of the few that my parents found not very effective because I liked it. It was originally created by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in Germany in the 19th century. The vast majority of my English teachers used this piece to teach us how to analyze these poems and some literary terms. The poem gave me the idea of a "children's fairy tale" until I heard "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" by Anne Sexton. It takes a completely different look at the historical fairy tale and brings a female perspective to it. Sexton focuses on how we are raised as children to believe that women are inferior to men. It kind of gives me the idea that maybe this is how our society is portrayed. The unusual darkness and violence of this version of the story may surprise readers in how Anne Sexton analyzes the real social issues of why women are inferior to men. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” by Anne Sexton brings women into the light. Violence, beauty, purity, and male dominance are more than just themes in this poem. They are real life social problems that leave women behind in the darkness to be perceived as simply plain and not beautiful. Everything you read that you believe may be in our best interest is not always correct. These fairy tales that our children hear about today teach them that women are all beauty and no brains and should be subservient to the male species. By doing so, you become the door... in the center of the card... you. He brings the main conflict into the plot where from time to time he tries to come across the simple, empty-minded Snow White and tries to kill her by giving her the poisoned apples. Sexton worked hard to be able to string all the themes together to help see the big picture as a whole. The social problems that women have faced over time are still present today. Our children are raised to perceive that women are inferior to men. This poem shows that a woman's purity, beauty, and intelligence are all defined as "things." Which makes them useless and lifeless and in need of men to fill their soul and spirit. Ultimately these elements are the reason why the male species is portrayed as a strong and all-powerful man who, above all, leaves beautiful, simple-minded women like Snow White inferior to them..
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