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Question:
What is the point of Snow White?
I ask this because, as most of you lovely people reading this know, I'm trying to write an erotic version of the story and, while it's ten tonnes of fun to just write orgasms all day, I really do feel that the story needs a plot.
See, The Snow Queen has a whole raft of Underlying Messages, as does Beauty and the Beast (both of which I'll be doing the same thing to, along with Sleeping Beauty, although I'm not clear on the Underlying Message of that one). It's fairly easy to hang onto the plot skeleton while changing everything else when the skeleton is so strong and so obvious.
The Underlying Message of Snow White, however, is evading me.
It's getting on my nerves.
Plot Bunnying:
See, I think Bianca's dad has a son, somewhere. The splitting image of his father, and the product of a ten-minute rut with a bar-maid seventeen-odd years earlier, alive and healthy (and preferring boys to girls, but he doesn't know that right now), and showing up on his father's doorstep.
I think the reason Bianca got sent off to an isolated convent in the Bavarian forests was so that this son wouldn't know about her. (So that he doesn't eventually balk at the idea of wedding Bianca who -- biologically -- has diddly-squat in common with him but who, socially, is technically his sister).
I think this was Marianne's idea.
I rather expect that Marianne had the idea of seducing the young bastard and effectively putting him in her thrall, and she found out just how flat that was going to fall and took another route.
The thing is: I'm not sure *why* she's doing this.
See, yes, if Bianca inherits (or if her husband inherits, if you will, thus moving into the estate), then Bianca stays at the estate and Marianne has access to her lover just about 24/7 (or close enough). And that *might* be reason enough for her to want to do this.
But I'm not sure it's enough.
Her father's going to have to die pretty soon after Junior arrives on the scene, too.
Hm.
Anyone have any bright ideas? :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
What is the point of Snow White?
I ask this because, as most of you lovely people reading this know, I'm trying to write an erotic version of the story and, while it's ten tonnes of fun to just write orgasms all day, I really do feel that the story needs a plot.
See, The Snow Queen has a whole raft of Underlying Messages, as does Beauty and the Beast (both of which I'll be doing the same thing to, along with Sleeping Beauty, although I'm not clear on the Underlying Message of that one). It's fairly easy to hang onto the plot skeleton while changing everything else when the skeleton is so strong and so obvious.
The Underlying Message of Snow White, however, is evading me.
It's getting on my nerves.
Plot Bunnying:
See, I think Bianca's dad has a son, somewhere. The splitting image of his father, and the product of a ten-minute rut with a bar-maid seventeen-odd years earlier, alive and healthy (and preferring boys to girls, but he doesn't know that right now), and showing up on his father's doorstep.
I think the reason Bianca got sent off to an isolated convent in the Bavarian forests was so that this son wouldn't know about her. (So that he doesn't eventually balk at the idea of wedding Bianca who -- biologically -- has diddly-squat in common with him but who, socially, is technically his sister).
I think this was Marianne's idea.
I rather expect that Marianne had the idea of seducing the young bastard and effectively putting him in her thrall, and she found out just how flat that was going to fall and took another route.
The thing is: I'm not sure *why* she's doing this.
See, yes, if Bianca inherits (or if her husband inherits, if you will, thus moving into the estate), then Bianca stays at the estate and Marianne has access to her lover just about 24/7 (or close enough). And that *might* be reason enough for her to want to do this.
But I'm not sure it's enough.
Her father's going to have to die pretty soon after Junior arrives on the scene, too.
Hm.
Anyone have any bright ideas? :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
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