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Examples Of Pedophilia In Snow White
Pedophilia Within the Fairy Tale Snow White The fairy tale Snow White by the Grimm brothers describes Snow White as a girl who is beautiful due to her youth rather than actual appearances as seen often in the other retellings. Snow White who is vastly younger than the queen is made out to be the most beautiful in the land which is made to seem as if it is because of her age. This sexualizing of a child brings the idea of pedophilia, where Snow White is being coveted as a being of finer beauty than that of a woman. The time that passes throughout the book is not clearly said but can be deduced that only a few months to a year has passed since she left the castle to when the prince crosses her path and marvels at the young girl and decides at once that he must have her as his even though she is still a child of either eight or seven. Snow White a girl described as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony becomes the envy of the queen, her step mother, from the moment the magic mirror proclaims that the girl is more beautiful than she. In the line, “By the time she was seven years old she was as beautiful as the day is clear and more beautiful than …show more content…
How can a child be a thousand times fairer without having it widely accepted by all the society that a girl of seven years old can be seen as a sexual object to be pursued? The queen’s beauty although rare is crushed to nothing solely by a youthful girl that knows nothing of being a woman let alone have any sexual desires of her own or understanding that she is valued higher than a woman of rare beauty due to her childish undeveloped

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