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Friday, 30 July 2010

Mirror, Mirror on the wall... Is Snow White an insightful look into the human psyche?

So I'm watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfes with my daughter and I'm thinking that we've all got a lil bit of all of movie's characters in us... these definate characters are sterotypical, each with their labels but I don't believe real life, non-cartoon human are like that at all. I believe that we all have a bit of everything in all of us... don't we? 

For example let's look at the sweet serene Snow White, the spotless loveable beauty - forever striving for the perfect organised home. A strong sense of positivity, always seeing the cup half full... Able to see the beauty in the most simple of things. Well... Most of the time...

And even if you won't admit it, you know deep inside of you, if only for some of the time we can all be like the The Evil Queen, insecure, jealous - needing praise and reassurance from something/someone outside of herself, and more than a little capable of some evil business... even if you've mastered how to suppress her, not ever letting her out.. Well... not in public anyway!

Then we can switch and be confident and assured like the Prince, able to sweet talk and swoon, strong and ready to ride in and come to the rescue for our family and friends

Stoic just like the assassin Axeman, even though we know what we have to do, we won't compromise our values, we can't bring ourselves to destroy another being

And then there's the dwarves: When complimented we get all Bashful. Most days we're very Happy, and very Grumpy the rest... When the afternoon slump hits us we feel "Dopey" and can act it all the way... Thanks to Google our inner hypercondriacs can play "Doc"tor and self diagnose till the sun comes up, and that's right when we get all "Sleepy" and wish we didn't stay up so late. Life's not meant for weeping, but sometimes our eyes swell just like Sneezy, sensitive to a smile.

And no matter our outer shell, no matter the label we give ourselves, everyone shits themselves when they think there's a stranger in their house!

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