White

To be sure, the Brothers Grimm never intended the folk tale of Snow White to be either a feminist or an anti-feminist story since these terms did not yet exist in 1810 when they recorded it. Their basic assumptions about women in the story reflect the values of a feudal, authoritarian, patriarchal society. Hardly any other type of society existed in the world at that time, and certainly neither the Grimm brothers nor any of the characters in Snow White ever seem to question these ideas about the proper place of women. Snow White is not really the main character of the story, since she is so passive and submissive -- a sort of ideal good little girl type. She is the feminine ideal of a patriarchal society, given her beauty, passivity, dutifulness and submissiveness to authority, and the difference between Snow White and the evil Queen was typical...
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