‘Who’s the fairest of them all?’ The impact of men on the stepmother-daughter relationship in Snow White

• Main Author: Tan, Aaron Justin Li Jie
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54980
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In fairy tales, there are no ambiguities or complications but instead, straightforwardness in the narrative trajectory, where good deeds are rewarded and wicked deeds punished as seen in the ‘happily ever after’ of Snow White and the cruel ending of the stepmother. This idea of a ‘happily ever after...