In the movie Snow White the literary lens of psychoanalysis is
used. Snow White uses Electra complex by creating a relationship with the
dwarfs. Snow Whites father died and she lived with her evil stepmother.
As Freud says when you are young you want to be a daddy's girl or if you’re
a boy you want to be a mamma's boy. This is true in the movie because she
had this fixation and was able to fulfill it at a young age, but after her
father dies she is unable to. Snow White sings of how she is longing for love
and wants to find a husband. According to Freud when you look for a
spouse at a later age, you will look for someone who is like your parent.
Snow White probably longed for love because of the loss of her father.
So when she finds the dwarfs and is able to care for them and clean for
them she gets some of that fulfillment out of it.
This wicked witch in this movie uses repression. She knows she is not beautiful so represses
the feelings she has toward her ugly self by casting a spell that made her
beautiful. This is because she wanted to
be the fairest of them all. She can
repress this feeling because she is beautiful so she forgets that she really is
an ugly witch.
Anna, you have some great thoughts and make some good points in your blog! I agree with you when you talk about how Snow White loses her father and wants to find a man to fall in love with. It is as if her main focus is to find a man who will replace that kind of relationship she had with her father. When you talk about her relationships with the dwarfs, she does seem to get fulfillment. I think that Snow White also becomes a motherly figure toward the dwarfs. She shows this by expressing the characteristics that a motherly figure would express, for example cooking their food, cleaning their cottage, and nurturing them. Even the dwarfs feel a connection to Snow White. As soon as they knew she could cook and clean they immediately loved her. When Snow White orders the dwarfs to wash up for supper they seemed to think it was weird. It was apparent they lacked having that motherly figure in their lives. I gave some consideration to what you are saying about Snow Whites evil stepmother (the witch). I had some additional thoughts on this topic. I wonder about what kind of childhood did the witch have growing up. She had to have a traumatic experience earlier in her life to make her be the evil and heartless character she is. The only thing the witch seems to value in life was her beauty, and she would do anything to stay the fairest of them all. Your ideas really caught my attention! Good job on your blog!
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