Schneewittchen

It's important to understand that, within the story itself, Snow White is an anomaly, a singularity, a fantastic creature. According to the tale, the young queen was embroidering by the window, pricked her finger, and drops of blood fell into the snow on the ebony frame. She found it such a beautiful sight that she wished for a creature as white as snow, as black as ebony, and as red as blood. Eventually, she died giving birth to a baby girl with those characteristics, whom she named Schneewittchen, i.e., 'white [as] snow.' Thus, she paid with her life for the miracle she asked for and received: conceiving a sort of tricolor monster of exceptional beauty. The three colors chosen by the Brothers Grimm are not accidental; in German folklore, they were the colors of a certain triple goddess who represented the three ages of woman: white for the maiden, red for the wife, black for the widow, i.e., before, during, and after love... Snow White represents femininity in the three moments of love, or the beloved as the most beautiful vision in the world.