Whiter Than Snow
Whiter than snow, whiter than snow
Wash me and I shall be
Whiter than snow
The ideas for the Whiter than Snow theme came from several sources. First a film, The Magdalen Sisters, about girls incarcerated in a Magdalen laundry to pay for their sins, which made the connection between punishment of women and the washing away of dirt and sin.
Wash me and I shall be
Whiter than snow
The ideas for the Whiter than Snow theme came from several sources. First a film, The Magdalen Sisters, about girls incarcerated in a Magdalen laundry to pay for their sins, which made the connection between punishment of women and the washing away of dirt and sin.
Reward and retribution
In the classic fairytales, the reward for a girl is marriage to a prince. Retribution for her vanity and wickedness comes in many horrifying forms.
In the classic fairytales, the reward for a girl is marriage to a prince. Retribution for her vanity and wickedness comes in many horrifying forms.
Retribution often involves shoes – they dance her to death, or force her to cut off her toes to fit them, or dance in red-hot iron shoes. In real life, shoes are a powerful, though sometimes painful and damaging, statement of sexuality and conformity.
