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We started with Beauty and the Beast, which showed us a middle ages village that absolutely must have had personal experience with how expendable the noble class really is. Let's continue with the second most blatant example, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
The Wicked Queen does some disturbing evil in this movie. Her motivation is simple and disturbing in itself, to be the most beautiful in the land. This is a queen, mind you, with legal authority over all the land. What's more, she's a queen in Europe, during the middle ages, and (as per at least one prayer scene by Snow White) a Christian country, which means that the official line is that she has divine right to rule. And, her primary motivation is to be the most beautiful.
She regularly checks her magic mirror. When the magic mirror's opinion says someone else might be prettier or "fairer" than she, the only option is murder. She commands a woodsman to kill the one the mirror thinks is the only one, in all the land, fairer than she. When she finds out that didn't work, she tries to do the job, herself.
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The Wicked Queen does some disturbing evil in this movie. Her motivation is simple and disturbing in itself, to be the most beautiful in the land. This is a queen, mind you, with legal authority over all the land. What's more, she's a queen in Europe, during the middle ages, and (as per at least one prayer scene by Snow White) a Christian country, which means that the official line is that she has divine right to rule. And, her primary motivation is to be the most beautiful.
She regularly checks her magic mirror. When the magic mirror's opinion says someone else might be prettier or "fairer" than she, the only option is murder. She commands a woodsman to kill the one the mirror thinks is the only one, in all the land, fairer than she. When she finds out that didn't work, she tries to do the job, herself.
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