... . This theme of red and white is repeated in the poisonous apple, which was a beautiful red-and-white-cheeked apple' of which only the red cheek was poisoned. Bettelheim states that these colours correspond to the id and the superego, red being the chaos of unbridled emotions, the id,(p.214) and white the purity of our conscience, the superego.(p.214). He goes on to say that a harmony is found in a new awakening of the mature ... ego , in which red and white coexist harmoniously.(p.214). The eating of the apple, therefore, seems to me to represent Snow White reaching maturity, the confli...

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