I love your interpretation of this fairytale! The beauty of fairytales and folklore is how multilayered they are with symbolism that through different lenses we can extract deeper or different meanings.
I think you make a good point about the mirror as you described how it is displayed in the Disney Snow White original film with smoke and theatrical mask, it’s alluding to the concept of “smoke and mirrors” false realities or that very trendy word nowadays “misinformation” - the stories we tell ourselves planted in the subconscious by who? Often the who is a collective. But I also like how you drew a parallel in the hot iron shoes we all wear dancing to the tune of the pied piper, in this case capitalism that for both men and women, keeps us busy hustling to make ends meet, with the threat of competition always looming as the Queen evidently feels with a younger beautiful princess awaiting the throne. Mirrors even in ancient times have been used for spell work and divination, every shaman wore mirrors on long necklaces or on their waist like a belt. They were used to deflect or trap evil spirits, to scry into the future or nowadays the black mirrors we all hold in the palm of our hands (the apple, the iPhone) that went from the black screens of the tell a vision sets in our living rooms to now hand held de-vices that tell us everyday how we should feel, and when we look at ourselves through them, when we take a selfie on our Apple de-vice it distorts the truth of what and who we are.
I love your interpretation of this fairytale! The beauty of fairytales and folklore is how multilayered they are with symbolism that through different lenses we can extract deeper or different meanings.
I think you make a good point about the mirror as you described how it is displayed in the Disney Snow White original film with smoke and theatrical mask, it’s alluding to the concept of “smoke and mirrors” false realities or that very trendy word nowadays “misinformation” - the stories we tell ourselves planted in the subconscious by who? Often the who is a collective. But I also like how you drew a parallel in the hot iron shoes we all wear dancing to the tune of the pied piper, in this case capitalism that for both men and women, keeps us busy hustling to make ends meet, with the threat of competition always looming as the Queen evidently feels with a younger beautiful princess awaiting the throne. Mirrors even in ancient times have been used for spell work and divination, every shaman wore mirrors on long necklaces or on their waist like a belt. They were used to deflect or trap evil spirits, to scry into the future or nowadays the black mirrors we all hold in the palm of our hands (the apple, the iPhone) that went from the black screens of the tell a vision sets in our living rooms to now hand held de-vices that tell us everyday how we should feel, and when we look at ourselves through them, when we take a selfie on our Apple de-vice it distorts the truth of what and who we are.