Hidden Truths in Fiction

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Hidden Truths in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs There are hidden truths in everything, especially in fiction. One really good example of fiction that has hidden truths in it is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This movies allow us to see truths hidden from us in real life. One really good hidden truth in this movie is the basic human story from falling into sin to the salvation of the human race. There weren't any dwarfs in the Garden of Eden nor does the Bible describe the entrance into heaven as riding off into the sunset with prince charming after our death here on earth. But instead what it does show is that Snow White does offer the essence of the Fall of Man and our salvation is an amazing tale. Snow White represents humanity as God designed it to be. She is the fairest of the land and her skin being white as snow which represents her innocence and purity. When I say the "fall of man" I am referring to when sin entered the world. Adam and Eve decided to disobey God and eat an apple from the tree of knowledge. Snow White, as I stated earlier that she represents all of humanity was supposed to be pure. Snow White falls just like how Adam and Eve did. Satan seized an oppurtunity to raze mankind in order to glorify himself over God, the Queen attempts to kill Snow White so she will become the fairest on the land. The Queen knows that there is only one way to kill Snow White and thats to appeal to her desires and trick her, thus just as Satan did, by disguising herself and tricking her, against her better judgement. She takes a bite of the detrimental apple. All throughout the movie Snow White "wishes for the one she loves" and in one scene she begins to pray to God for her many needs just as Adam and Eve did before they ate an apple off the tree of knowledge. The Queen offers her one more way to make her dreams come true and that was by taking a bite
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