Theme Of Love In Perrault's The Sleeping Beauty In The Woods

In Perrault’s “The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods”, love is a general theme. With a prince finding his princess, the two of them are bound to the lies that come with the choice of their young love. However, this love grows a prince into a king and a princess into a queen. Love sometimes also involves parental involvement. Love is so big sometimes that is seconds as blinders. Being a different type of mother, the former queen has always been seen as a normal person. But, she loses sight of the love she has for her son until a tragic and horrific scene reminds her of what love really is. Through Perrault’s idealistic view, he reminds his audience that love conquers all things.

The theme of love is a very general theme. One way of love that Perrault

In Perrault’s story, the young prince immediately falls in love with a young woman who “…was dressed like his great-grandmother” (11) and marries her immediately. The story was to be a shock, however, the young prince did not tell about it. Perrault says, “The Prince told him: That he lost his way in the forest as he was hunting, and that he had lain in the cottage of a charcoal-burner, who gave him cheese and brown bread” (12).Being so blinded by his love, it conquered his life enough to tell a lie, in which Perrault says, “The King, his father, who was a good man, believed him; but his mother could not be persuaded it was true…” (12). The King is so blinded by the happiness from his son’s love to ignore what may have happened. Blinding love, however, can come in multiple different ways. Many times this love comes as the love for materialistic goods. The King is never truly in love with his queen but instead her money, in which Perrault says, “… The King would never had married her had it not been for her vast riches…” (12). ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬The King only saw the money before him and that’s all. He never saw the queen and that’s why they are so different. With the money in sight, he lost the view of true

In Perrault’s story, the Queen of the kingdom comes from an ogre background. When the King, the Queen’s son, leaves for battle he entrusts his mother with not only the kingdom but also his wife and two children. The Queen never truly grows fond of her son’s family, because she catches onto to his scheme of lying about how the two came to love one another. With this knowledge being bottled up in her head for at least two years and the conditions being just right, the queen comes to not only wanting to kill her son’s family, but to wanting eat them. When having found out that she had not eaten them but instead was served meat with a very elegant sauce, she was enraged. Perrault is showing here how the Queen may have been ‘sober’ for quite a few years, or since she became queen, but how quickly she lost sight of the love that was once found in her heart. The Queen immediately sentenced her son’s family and the kitchen clerk, who had lied to her, to execution. She is so enraged by what had happened to her and went back to killing to only satisfy herself, which not of a queen’s ideology but of her own ideology. Once they are all their about to be executed, her son, the King, comes back and sees what is about to happen. Perrault says “No one dared to tell him, when the Ogress, all enraged to