Snow White/Mary Margaret Character Analysis

[charming]

@slurpeez108 wrote:

Snow White, like everyone, has her moments where she struggles. Even if she started out spoiled, life quickly taught her some very hard and cruel lessons early on. It’s amazing she turned out as well as she did. She was a little girl who lost her mother at a young age, had to endure a step-mother who never really loved her and tried to kill her multiple times, was doted on by her father from a young age, who was tragically taken from her as a teenager by evil Regina. Not only was she an orphan from about the age of 18 due to her evil step-mother, but she was probably framed for the murder of her beloved father.

Even when Regina sent a huntsman to tear out SW’s heart, SW wrote a letter forgiving her step-mother and apologizing for keeping her from love. When Prince Charming met SW, she was on the run for her life after nearly being assassinated by the Huntsman, who took mercy on her. She was wanted wrongfully for “murder, treason, and treachery.” Even though she acted unbecomingly as a result of taking the potion from Rumpel, he explained that when she forgot Prince Charming, she lost her heart. She isn’t really as bad as she seemed. It was the price she had to pay for the magic. It’s similar to when Regina’s love, Daniel, died in her arms. That caused Regina’s figurative heart to be crushed into a thousand pieces and for her to snap. Fortunately for SW, she still had her Prince Charming to save her from a destructive fate.

I could not have said all of that better myself. Touche. I think that pretty much sums up what I was trying get to. Yes, you are right. That makes perfect sense.

[hjbau]

I just think Snow has some issues with depression. We have seen that happen to her multiple times which more then makes sense in light of all that has happened to her. And yet she still is able to fight back from it and try to do the best she can.

[charming]

Point taken and good ones too.

[eternalflame]

I love Snow White. For a delicate little princess, she has a lot of courage. Like others have pointed out, when the Huntsman came to kill her, she actually took the time to write a letter of apology to the Evil Queen. Only a woman pure of heart would do that. Lovely character.

[charming]

Charming right now maybe uncharming David but Snow White right now maybe self regret Mary Margaret. Point being there are traces of David being Charming and MM being Snow White in SB but they have not found each other….themselves for that matter. They need self discovery before they can rediscover each other.

[surayya]

Geeze, I was re-watching ep 3 (I think) where PC traps SW after she steals his jewels & I noticed just how much Regina/EQ has really messed with her head (for a change Subtlety) as she was growing up!
She tells PC true love doesn’t exist 1st off.
Tells him royals are basically heartless bullies (this also fits with what she tells grumpy etc).
Marriage is Only about gaining riches ie business transactions & arranged marriages.
There’s no such thing as love at 1st sight or 1st kiss.

I knew Regina would have messed with her while she was raising her (I guess I just took it for granted that she would have taken opportunities to mess with her mind), but this really shows the lengths Regina went to ….. SW’s views are really set in this episode & despite her feelings she does fight them hard (like we see when red drops off her food), she also hesitates when PC offers her his arm to help balance while crossing the log etc.
I would like to see a little more of SW childhood with Regina as well as Emma’s in foster care/teenage stage as they may have had very similar up bringings when all’s said & done 😉

[mia]

@Surayya wrote:

I knew Regina would have messed with her while she was raising her (I guess I just took it for granted that she would have taken opportunities to mess with her mind), but this really shows the lengths Regina went to …..

Yes, that’s my opinion, too. What I find strange however, is that in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Snow just hugs Regina and seeks comfort in her. Regina couldn’t have been all that bad to her while growing up. Or Snow is even more clueless than I thought and I already think she’s way too oblivious. That is one thing that doesn’t add up for me …

[charming]

Snow as protrayed by Bailee Madison in the Stableboy was a young naive little girl. She only told Cora abour Regina because she was more fearful of someone losing a mother than the consequences of revealing that secret. Obviously if your father is scouring the land looking for a mother for you, she must have been important and her loss was serious enough. Sometimes children not to know the consequences of certain actions and maybe had Regina said what Cora would do just maybe young Snow would not have told.

[surayya]

Im with both of you there – I have to just put it down to SW wanted a mother so desperately that she saw what she wanted to see & took on board all the ‘crap’ (for lack of a better term) Regina drummed into her head….Regina must have had to be very subtle to start off with- maybe she just got OTT & clumsy after SW got away (& that would have been awake up call for SW, as your mother trying to have you killed is going to open your’s eyes to her true intentions & feelings about you & would just cement everything Regina had told her about love etc as she was growing up 😉 )
It also occurred to me that she may mean she ruined Regina’s life by not being able to stop her bolting horse & therefore Regina ended up marring her father & being brought into her family (Cora is out of the picture from what we can see so either she is dead or Regina lost her mother due to living with SW & co – at least that is how Regina could have played it anyway) – also a loveless marriage by her own acct (I’m sure she’s smart enough to realize Regina ‘pretended’ to love her father & that her acts of kindness were just that, ‘acts’, due to her views on marriage & love when she meets PC).

[obisgirl]

Bailee talks about how she prepares for the role, studying screencaps, video of Ginny

Bailee Madison and Ginny Goodwin talk about what it's like to play Little Snow & adult Snow.

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