Branca de Neve e os sete “eus”: uma análise da simbologia na relação com os sete anões

Abstract

This essay starts from an analysis of the short story Snow White by the Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1985). We aim to explain and analyze the main character's relationship with the seven years mediated by mystical figures that represent the nature, good or bad, of the human being. These instinctive and sinful forces appear in the narrative as a means of representing the maturation process of the main character, who transitions from a child to an adult. This process affects her inner self, making her discover several specific aspects of the human being, that is, “their selves”. For the analysis, we used qualitative research of a documentary nature with bibliographic tools. To this end, we will use authors who discuss the topic from literature (LAJOLO and ZILBERMAN, 2017), education (MWEWA, 2010) and psychoanalysis (BETTELHEIM, 2023). The analysis is justified because it is a classic of world literature that influences the formation of countless readers, especially children in different socialization contexts (family, school and social). It is hoped that our tips can, in addition to explaining the symbolic present in the narrative, indicate how and what content supports this relationship in the story. This procedure can allow children to understand the story by bringing to light issues of subjective multiplicities, in a word, subjective diversity.