I need some assistance with these assignment. snow white Thank you in advance for the help! All three stories are based on an older woman’s jealousy directed to a younger girl who is related to them in one way or another. In the Italian tale, the older woman finds out that her husband’s niece has been hidden in a secret room in the palace and concludes that she was having an affair with her husband. She proceeds to mistreat her throughout her life until one day, when the husband finds out the girl’s story from her conversation with her doll. The Scottish version tells of the rivalry between a woman and her stepdaughter over the inheritance. She devises plans to kill the stepdaughter several to no avail, which ultimately leads to her demise. The same plot is seen in the modern tale of Snow White, only that, in this case, the rivalry stems from the fact that the stepdaughter is thought to be more beautiful than the mother.

Another similarity is seen between the tale of the King’s daughter and the modern version. Both girls find princes towards the end of their stories, and their troubles are supposedly sorted out. The stories portray the importance of royalty during the time the stories were developed. Kings and their relatives were respected and had privileges that were not available to the country’s other citizens. Therefore, marrying a royal family member was the best possible chance of succeeding than any girl could have. Also, in the story of the King’s daughter, the plot is based on royalty, and the dispute between the two women results from the vast wealth that kings possessed at the time. The approval of a king or prince is portrayed as the highest level of success that a woman of that time could attain.

The stories also point out that most women determine their attractiveness based on opinions from other sources. In the story of the King’s daughter, the Queen first envies her stepdaughter because she is led to think that her stepdaughter might inherit more wealth than her. However, later on, we learn that the Queen has visits a well in the King’s garden where a trout tells her that she cannot be the most beautiful woman in Ireland as long as the King’s daughter is alive. Similarly, the Queen in Snow White’s tale asks a mirror if she is the most beautiful woman, while the Queen in the Scottish tale envies the King’s niece based on her perceived good looks. All three stories send the message that women are most likely to come to conflicts of a sexual nature instead of wealth or other belongings.