2013+SLEEPING+BEAUTY

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Charles Perrault Version http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault01.html Marissa Silverman

In this story by Charles Perrault, the King and Queen threw their daughter a banquet after her christening where they invited 6 fairies. Each fairy bestowed presents on the Princess. The first fairy said that she would be the most beautiful girl in the world, the second, that she would have the temper of an angel, the third that she should do everything with wonderful grace, the fourth, that she should dance to perfection, the fifth, that she should sing like a nightingale, and the sixth, that she should play every kind of music with the utmost skill. A 7th fairy came uninvited and she seemed much older. She said that the Princess would prick her hand on a spindle and die of it. Everyone was crying and the young fairy told them that instead of the Princess dying, she would fall into a deep sleep that would last 100 years and after that, a king's son would go wake her. When the Princess was around 15 she was walking around and went upstairs to a room where there was a woman spinning. She asked to try to spin and not much later, she pricked her hand and fell into a deep sleep. The good fairy who saved her life came back to the castle and put a spell on everyone else in the kingdom to make them fall into a deep sleep as well. She made it so that when the Princess wakes up the whole kingdom will too. One day, a king's son was going on a hunting trip and saw the tower in the distance. He asked what they were but no one knew the full story. A peasant told him that he had once heard it is a princess that can only be awakened by a king's son. Right when entering the woods, the branches and trees parted, creating a pathway for him. He walked into a room made of gold, where a princess lay sleeping in a bed. He knelt down beside her and suddenly she awoke asking if it was really him. He and the Princess married that night after supper. He returned home after that and told no one of his secret marriage. They had two children, Dawn and Day, during the time of his secret. He couldn't confide in anyone with this. His father died and he was sentenced to the thrown. He told everyone about his marriage and children. He had to go to war so he left his mother in charge to help watch and take care of them. The mother had come from a race of ogres and it was a tendency to eat little children. One night she told the steward that she was going to eat Dawn for dinner the next day. The steward couldn't kill Dawn so he killed a lamb and had Dawn hide so that the mother would not know that her stew wasn't made of Dawn. She then asked for her stew to be made of Day, and then the Queen. The steward decided to save his own life he would have to kill the Queen. One day, the mother heard the children and the Queen from the basement. She was furious knowing they were alive and that she had been tricked. She ordered a huge vat of vipers, toads, snakes, and all kinds of serpents in it. Right as she was about to put all of them into it to kill them, the King arrived. As this happened the mother jumped into the vat and killed herself.

= Walt Disney version = Ashley Cassa media type="youtube" key="CfsyUyi_FJM" height="315" width="420"

==== Walt Disney's version was different from the original version of "Sleeping Beauty." This version was not as appropriate for little children so he had to change it a little. It starts off with a King and Queen and they have a daughter, Aurora. In the kingdom, there are thirteen fairies but one of them isn't good. One night, there was a party and the King and Queen invited all the fairies except for one, the bad one. Although, somehow that fairy still managed to get her way into the party. The fairy decided to put a spell on Aurora, which was that she would drop dead on her fifteenth birthday. But there was a good fairy who then casted a spell that instead of dying, she will just fall into a heavy sleep on her fifteenth birthday. In order for the spell to work, she had to prick her finger on her fifteenth birthday. As the year came along, Aurora pricked her finger and fell into a deep sleep. After sleeping beauty was fast asleep, there was a prince who came along and found her. He decided to kiss her and after that shewoke up and her and the prince lived happily ever after. In Walt Disney movies, there is always a happy ever after and it occurred in Sleeping Beauty also. ====

= = = Sleeping Beauty and Her Rapist = ====  ==== by Celeste Esposito

In this version of Sleeping Beauty, there is a sick twist to the story. It is about the daughter of a King, Talia who was poisoned with flax fell into a deep sleep or "death" has her father thought. He placed her body on a velvet cloth and left her in the woods. Later, a rich nobleman found Talia's body and decided to rape her. Talia, who wasn't dead but just sleeping, became pregnant with twins. Nine months later she gave birth to Sun and Moon (the twins) and the forest fairies took care of the kids while Talia was still sleeping. The fairies placed the babies to Talia's breasts so she could breast feed but by accident one of the babies mistook her thumb for her breast and sucked the poison out of it. Talia woke up and months later the rich nobleman returned to have sex with Talia's body but realized she was now awake. He confessed to raping her and they went to go have sex in the barn. He returned home but his wife soon found out about the children. She ordered them to be kidnapped and cooked alive. She served it to her husband and shouted " You are eating what is your own! " but instead the cook having a heart, substituted the children for a goat. Talia, her rapist, and her children lived happily ever after. This is the complete opposite of the Walt Disney's version, there is a happy ever after but there was not a happy story to get there.

=Sleeping Beauty (2011) Trailer=

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