Dwarf Woodlands

Dwarf Woodlands is the home world of Snow White, the Evil Queen, the Magic Mirror, the Prince and the Seven Dwarfs, Happy, Dopey, Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Bashful, and Doc.

*Magic Mirror:
You have been granted passage to a place of wonder and delight.
Behold, the enchanted land of the fair princess, Snow White.*

## Locations

There are a number of notable locations in this world.

### The Queen's Castle

There is a castle in which the Evil Queen, and at first Snow White, resides. Though externally the archetype of a fairy tale castle (appropriately used as the backdrop for the film's poster to suggest the genre and nature of the film), its walls hide many dark and arcane secrets.

* **Courtyard**: The Courtyard is the location of the wishing well; here, Snow White sings "I'm Wishing" as she cleans, attracting the attention of the Prince, who climbs over the wall to meet her. As he sings "One Song" to her, the Queen watches from the window of her chamber high above the lovers, and furiously closes the curtains, jealous of the Prince's affections for Snow White. The courtyard is the only area of the castle shown in the film which does not reflect the Queen's personality.
* **Royal Chambers**: The Queen's Chambers are elaborately decorated to suit her vanity. The Queen rarely seems to leave her chambers; she watches events unfold below her from her window. A spiral staircase leads to the dungeon below.
* **Magic Mirror Chamber**: The Magic Mirror is located behind a blue curtain in a special chamber in the castle. Every morning, the Queen approaches the mirror (sometimes closing the curtains after her, implying that the Mirror is a possession she wishes to keep secret) and asks who the fairest one of all is; when the Mirror names Snow White fairest of all, the jealous Queen plots to do away with her stepdaughter.
* **Throne Room**: The Throne Room is appropriately decorated with a relief of a peacock to reflect the Queen's vanity. The throne is raised; the Queen thus addresses all her subjects from above. Humbert the Huntsman is summoned to the throne room, and ordered by the Queen to kill Snow White and remove her heart.
* **Dungeons**: A spiral staircase connects the castle's lavish upper rooms to the rat-infested dungeons. This area of the castle is used by the Queen to house both her enemies (whom she starves to death) and most of her arcane magical artifacts. It consists of several levels, the lowest of which leads out into the water moat surrounding the castle.
* **Laboratory**: When the Queen learns from the Magic Mirror that the Huntsman failed to carry out her orders, she descends into her laboratory. Here, the Raven is perched on a skull. The laboratory is filled with potions and magical ingredients, which the Queen mixes in various glass tubes, vials, kegs and bottles. Here, the Queen transforms into the Witch, and prepares the Poisoned Apple to kill Snow White.
* **Dock**: A trapdoor in the floor of the laboratory allows access to a flight of stone steps, leading further into the dungeons. This chamber is lined with cells, the homes of many former prisoners. The Witch sees one skeleton in a final attempts to reach a jug of water, and kicks the now empty jug at the skeleton, shattering the skull. Another flight of steps leads to a stone platform, where a small boat is moored. The Witch rows the boat through a tunnel leading outside of the castle, and reaches the shore leading to the forest. It is likely that this secret way of entering and leaving the castle is used by the Queen and her minions to keep the inhabitants of the nearby town ignorant of many of her underhanded deeds.

### The Cottage of the Seven Dwarfs

There is a cottage in the woods that is the home of of the Seven Dwarfs, who leave every morning to work in the Dwarfs' Mine. Snow White comes upon the cottage during the day and, finding it deserted, cleans it (with the help of the forest animals) in the hope of being allowed to stay.

Inside, the cottage is beautifully decorated with ornate woodcarvings of various animals and occasionally dwarf figures as well. Almost every object, from a chair to a candle holder, is detailed in some way.

### The Dwarfs' Mine

The **Dwarfs' Mine** is the workplace of the seven dwarfs in *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*. Every morning, the dwarfs leave their cottage and march to the mine, where they dig for diamonds. The reason for this is never explained (this is made reference to in "Heigh-Ho", in which the dwarfs sing that they "don't know what we dig 'em for"). Each dwarf has a specific job: Grumpy, Happy, Bashful and Sneezy dig to unearth diamonds; Sleepy collects the diamonds in a mine cart and transports them to Doc, who determines which diamonds should be kept; rejected diamonds are swept up and thrown away by Dopey. The dwarfs finish their work at 5 PM, and as the mine is quite far from their cottage, they return home late in the evening. As they leave for, and return from work, the dwarfs sing "Heigh-Ho".

### The Forest

The Huntsman, at the Evil Queen's orders, leads Snow White to a secluded glade in the forest, where he intends to kill her; however, he shows mercy and pleads that the princess flee. As Snow White runs through the forest, it appears to become hostile towards her; an owl screeches at her, trees resemble leering faces, branches become talons snatching at her dress, and floating logs become crocodiles snapping at her heels. After collapsing in fright, Snow White encounters the forest animals, and the forest seems less scary to Snow White, now that she has friends with her. They take her to the Cottage of the Seven Dwarfs. The dwarfs return home from a day at their mine and, taking pity on the princess, allow her to stay.

The Queen, after transforming into the Witch, leaves her castle and, that night, makes her way through a barren, rocky area of the forest to the cottage in order to kill Snow White herself; on the way, she is noticed and followed by two sinister vultures. After the dwarfs leave for the mine, the Witch approaches the cottage and succeeds in poisoning Snow White; however, she is then chased by the dwarfs and animals through a hostile, rocky landscape while a storm rages. Reaching a cliff, the Witch attempts to crush her pursuers with a boulder, but is thwarted by a thunderbolt which throws her (and the boulder) to the rocks down below. Snow White is placed in a glass coffin, in the middle of a peaceful glade, where she is resurrected by the Prince's kiss.

### The Prince's Castle

**The Prince's Castle** is the place where the Prince takes Snow White to after awakening her from her death-like sleep and where they both lived happily ever after.

Though the castle interior is never shown, the castle appears to have thick tall walls that also serve as the base, 3 predominant sections of towers each connected by archways. Most of the spires are pink in color and there are 17 seen. The "castle in the air" seems to face west through the entrance is undefined (as it is for a lot of other Disney castles.)