Princess Walt

I feel there was more than just one thesis.  One of the most stressed points, however, was how Disney altered the original Grimm story into a mold of his own life.  The thesis of this point was to stress how the male prince, who never enters the story until the end, is the culminating hero who basically came out of nowhere and saved the princess.  This is an allusion to his story as the no-name animator who comes out and makes his name and fortune with Snow White, his princess who represents his departure from the life of an ill-loved son and a dreamer with an invisible vision.  Snow White is his property (even though he certainly did not draw or design her), perhaps that representation of lost love that he reconquers through his ingenuity, and because, well, he's the guy.  Of course he carries the lost woman off into the clouds!  Do I agree...well, no.  I revere this man.  Perhaps people back in the Grimm Brothers' day thought they, too, tarnished these tales from this new media.  Disney is just the modern Brother Grimm; no one is accusing the Grimm Brothers of incorporating their lives into stories (nonetheless about princesses!).