Beauty is the Beast
... hunter. The hunter takes pity on Snow White, though, and brings the queen a boar's heart instead of Snow White's. After Snow White is released by the hunter, she walks through the forest for weeks, and at each turn there is some dreadful threat to her safety. Even the "snakes hung down in loops,/each a noose for her sweet white neck." Luckily, Snow White makes it to the safety of the dwarfs cottage, where she tells her story and begins to live with the dwarfs. The dwarfs warn Snow White that the queen will find out where she is and they advise her, "While we are away in the mines/during the day, you must not/ open the door." Snow White, of course, does not heed their advice because she is not just a woman, but an ultra-feminine paper doll of a woman. She opens the door for the queen, unable to resist purchasing some womanly accouterments. The first time she buys some lacing (tight enough to strangle), the second she buys a comb (poisoned). But each time, the dwarfs come to her rescue. They undo the lacing and take the comb out of her hair, and through the power of these men, she is revived. The third time, the men can't save her though, because the object with which Snow White is befallen is a poisoned apple, not a hairpin or rouge. So the dwarfs put the dead beauty in a glass box on a mountain, like a doll on display, so everyone that passes by can see her. A prince happens by and refuses to leave. The dwarfs pity him, so they give their possession to him to keep in his castle. When the prince's men carry the coffin off, they stumble and drop it, and the chunk of...