In The Fairy Tales

She bit the apple

she took with her fair smooth hands

from the rough hands of the old woman

with a crooked nose

and bulging eyes.

She knew she was the villain

“With a look like hers?

He’d come for me anyway,

that handsome prince.

Just like in the fairy tales.”

Structuralism:

Every fairy tale contain the same elements and follow a general pattern of events. In the poem ‘In The Fairy Tales’ the protagonist (derived from Snow White’ characters) bit the apple because she knew that this was the part she had to play since she was young and beautiful, while the villain– the witch, old and ugly– her binary opposite. She also knew that a prince would come for her because that’s what she read in the fairy tales. Snow White may have read fairy tales too you know.