Essay Comparing The Sun, Moon And Talia

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Everybody loves a fairytale story, one that has a happily ever after in the end. In the 21st century, the fairy tales of Cinderella, Snow White, and the sleeping beauty have been extensively over told. However, the 1632 literary Italian fairy tale “The Sun, Moon, and Talia” by Giambattista Basile was a different kind of fairy- tale. It was basically the sleeping beauty story, but different to the one told to kids in the present day. The sleeping beauty story and the 1634 fairy have a lot in common as well as differences. Take for instance the deep slumber, both Talia and the sleeping beauty both go into a deep sleep, however, in “The Sun, Moon, and Talia,” Talia gives birth while she was still asleep as a result of rape by the king in her slumber …show more content…

As from the beginning of the story, Talia is loved by her father. He is determined to know the future of her daughter and so he calls the wisest men and astrologers to cast Talia’s horoscope. The men predicted that Talia was destined to a huge misfortune, she would be endangered at a later time in her life from a splinter of flax (Basile 658-88). As a show of love, her father orders that no flax was ever to be brought into his house as a way of protecting his daughter from the predicted misfortune. However, little did he know that his daughter would suffer the predicted fate. “Talia one day ran into an old woman spinning her flax and asked her for a spin on her flax. She immediately pricks herself and apparently dies from the injury.” (Travers and Keeping) Her dad was very saddened. He sets out one of his sanctuaries where he keeps his daughter’s body and mourns her for a long while (Basile 658-88). He wishes to forget this horrible event and therefore abandons his daughter Talia in one of his country estates. He expresses love even to the death of her daughter. The pain of losing his only daughter is very overwhelming, and this can evidently be seen from the emotions displayed by the imagery used by Giambattista Basile in his

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