Analyzing and Defining Sleeping Beauty




                                                                                                 Sleeping Beauty


        Sleeping Beauty is a well-known and classic fairytale. The story of how a young maiden was cursed to prick her finger on a spinning wheel on her sixteenth birthday, is one that most young girls could easily tell you today. Most famously, Disney has released an animated version of this story in 1959, and it has remained famous to this day. But have you ever wondered if there was more to the story?

         In 1812 the Brothers Grimm put together some of the stories that they had collected over a small course of time.One of these stories the collected, was Briar Rose. The Disney version of Sleeping Beauty is most closely correlated to the Brothers Grimm version of the story. The maidens name is Briar Rose, and in the movie, they call her both Briar Rose, and simply Rose. The way that Briar Rose was cursed was similar, for the “evil” fairy cursed her to die by pricking her finger on a spindle, but the one fairy was able to use her magic to make it so she was in an eternal sleep. Later on, in the movie, she pricks her finger. Likewise, while the details are different, she does the same thing in the fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.

         Then there is another version that has a few more contrasts. This would be the Italian version called, “Sun, Moon, and Talia.” This version is similar in how it contains her somehow getting put to sleep, however in this story she is put to sleep due to getting a fiber of flax under her finger nail. She is put in an eternal sleep, but is not awoken by a prince like the Disney version. This version is also not appropriate for children, and would not be considered family friendly because of how Talia is actually raped and conceives two children.

         In all these versions we are able to see the main idea, that the maiden somehow pricks her finger and then is put in an eternal sleep for 100 years. Each version has its own value and significance, and is useful to read and study. 

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