This has long been deep rooted that every woman should want to become a mother, and in the times of these fairy tales they did not have a choice. In Gaimbattista Basile’s “Sun, Moon, and Talia,” Talia awakes to see two babies on her chest, and without even questioning where she is or who these babies belong too, she begins to care for them. Talia has the idea that mother hood is such an important part of who she is to become, she does not even question the fact she just wakes up with babies. In Maleficent, the women no longer wait around for their prince, but they are still expected to become a maternal figure. The fact that Maleficent becomes a maternal figure for Aurora is seen as a redeeming quality, meaning that she has finally become what she needed to become. Even in a movie from an era where women do not have to be mothers if they do not want to, mother hood is still seen as a fulfillment of a woman’s
This has long been deep rooted that every woman should want to become a mother, and in the times of these fairy tales they did not have a choice. In Gaimbattista Basile’s “Sun, Moon, and Talia,” Talia awakes to see two babies on her chest, and without even questioning where she is or who these babies belong too, she begins to care for them. Talia has the idea that mother hood is such an important part of who she is to become, she does not even question the fact she just wakes up with babies. In Maleficent, the women no longer wait around for their prince, but they are still expected to become a maternal figure. The fact that Maleficent becomes a maternal figure for Aurora is seen as a redeeming quality, meaning that she has finally become what she needed to become. Even in a movie from an era where women do not have to be mothers if they do not want to, mother hood is still seen as a fulfillment of a woman’s