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Compare And Contrast The Crystal Casket And Disney Snow White
When comparing the Disney Snow White and The Crystal Casket, there are many differences in the stories but they do have a couple qualities that are the same in both. In both stories the main antagonist is the stepmother, unlike in some of the other stories. Although in this story the stepmother hates her step daughter for no apparent reason except for the fact that stepmothers are supposed to hate their stepdaughters in this story. The stepmother does not treat her stepdaughter well in this story. The main point being that the daughter is sent every day to the terrace to water a pot of basil, which is very dangerous since she could fall into a large river below. When ten days has past after the daughter, Ermellina, was taken by an eagle, the

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