Many have heard different stories about Sleeping Beauty all with similar plots but all different endings. The main part that you find in any of the Sleeping Beauty stories is that the princess sleeping is a crucial part to the character and the whole plot itself. As you read different stories about Sleeping Beauty and their responses to it, you are able to see that the term “sleep” can metaphorically have many definitions when it comes to this story. In “The Sleeping Beauty” from Charles Perrault, we have the princess who at a very young age got “a curse that is induced by an external force” which in this case was an old fairy. The curse involved that the princess would die from pricking her hand with a spindle, but then
