A disney Tale: A young princess narrowly avoids death on the command of her evil stepmother. She shacks up with a group of mining dwarves but the stepmother finds her and puts her to sleep with a poisoned apple. The dwarves put her inside a glass coffin until a prince comes and kisses her, releasing her from the spell to live happily ever after.
Disney Heroine: Snow White is the first disney princess, but having viewed this around the same time as cenicienta and Sleeping Beauty (my daughter is going through a disney Princess phase) I would argue that those princesses are what we think of when...
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