Characteristics Of Sleeping Beauty

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For centuries, fairy tales have been passed down from generation to generation. Stories that told morals and lessons, princes rescuing the damsel in distress, magic, created imagination, and good versus evil. Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel, Beauty and the Beast, and the Little Mermaid all have these five characteristics in their own personal stories, but are just told differently. In Sleeping Beauty, which the earliest known version was first composed around 1330 and 1344 and first printed in 1528, a beautiful princess has a curse put on her and only a prince can break the spell. But because of how old the tale is, there are many different variations including "Little Briar Rose" by the Grimm Brothers, "The Beauty Sleeping …show more content…

In the Grimm and Perrault version, there was a different person or fairy that softens the curse so that Sleeping Beauty would instead fall asleep for a hundred years in compared to being dead enforcing the good versus evil. In the movie, Maleficent softens the curse herself, which symbolizes that even the evil can become good. But the other part of the curse was that it could only be broken by true love 's kiss, perceiving women that when they are in trouble, they can 't help themselves and must have help from a man, in this case a prince.
Unfortunately because of this curse, Sleeping beauty 's fate ultimately was in the hands of the wise woman, fairy, or Maleficent. The wise woman, fairy or Maleficent is bent on revenge in all three versions, but why she wasn 't invited in the first place are not necessarily the same. The reason why she wants revenge is because the wise woman, fairy, or Maleficent wasn’t invited to the party, which might not have seemed like a major deal, but that is quite the opposite in this situation. In the medieval time period, when a king and queen were holding a royal party, for example the birth of their child, the party was public and everybody was invited. The wise woman, fairy, or Maleficent being not …show more content…

The authors want to establish a moral to help teach the young and old about the world around us, may it be through the view of the good for example in the Grimm or Perrault versions, or through the evil person 's point of view like in Maleficent. But in some occasions, stories can teaches us two lessons at the same time. In Sleeping Beauty, the more important lesson teaches that love is the most powerful force in the world. The Grimm and Perrault versions both state that the princess is to fall asleep for a hundred years before she is able to be waken up. Perrault 's version though goes a little more in depth and says that to be waken up after a hundred years, a kiss from only a prince would wake her up. In Maleficent, Maleficent only says that Arora, the princess version of Sleeping Beauty, will be asleep until true love 's kiss wakes her up which in the movie, it was actually Maleficent who break her own curse for she truly loved Arora as a dear friend. The second lesson is not as common to be taught, but it teaches that a person should be careful when he or she offends someone in life whether it was deliberate or not. Each of the versions has someone being offended when in fact they weren 't meant to be and as an end result, the princess, in the stories ' case, was the one

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