Sleeping Beauty Analysis

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The story of Sleeping Beauty has been told and retold many times over the past few hundred years. The classic fairytale originally called “Briar Rose” was documented by the Grimm Brothers in their collection of german folk and fairytales, called Children 's and Household Tales. Sleeping Beauty was first published by the Grimm Brothers in 1812 and it found the spotlight once more when Disney Studios retold it in 1959 but modern audiences have been falling out of love with traditional fairy tales and in love with obscure retellings, often called “fractured fairy-tales”. One of the most popular kinds of fractured fairy-tales today is the tale told from the villian 's point-of-view. Because of this culture shift, Disney has begun to release contemporary …show more content…

It is the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty told by Aurora herself, only the story is not as we remember it to be. One of the main differences between the two versions is the character development that is seen in Maleficent was never included in the Grimm Brothers version. The Grimm Brothers revised their tales to conform to what they believed would be more suitable to children, which means they took out the sexual elements and added gender stereotypical role models topped with sweet descriptions. Their stories were told quickly and jumped from scene to scene never really allowing the audience to get to know the main characters so they never cared much about them …show more content…

She was simply, the thirteenth Wise Woman who stormed into the hall angry that she had not been invited to the feast. Her only role in the story is to stomp into the hall, curse the baby to die in her fifteenth year and leave, without even looking at anyone. When Disney originally told their version in 1959, they kept Maleficent 's role about the same except this time she had a grand entrance, intimating speech that ended with a curse, and she returned to lead Aurora to the spindle so she may prick her finger. Her reaction to not being invited to the feast was still considered by audiences a bit exaggerated, so when Disney released a movie 55 years later with Maleficent 's side of the story they crowded into theaters to see

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