Sleeping Beauty

When I think of magic, the first things that pops up in my head are fairy tales, folklore, and legends. For hundreds of years, tales and legends have been told and re-told to different audiences around the world. Travelers would share the stories that they had previously heard and they would either tell it exactly as they heard it or they would add to the story or change it in order to make it a completely different story. Each tale brings a different perspective of another tale which…

succeed at for the most part. They fail when it comes to targeting children that come from different cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds. As of right now there are only eleven official disney princesses Cinderella, Snow White, Aurora (aka Sleeping Beauty), Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Tiana, Mulan, Pocahontas, Merida, and Rapunzel. And out of those eleven princesses only four of them are not white. Princess Jasmine the first non white princess is supposed to be an Arabian princess from the Middle…

The differences between goblins, dwarfs and fairies in Victorian fairy tales The appearance of fantastic creatures and figures is very common in fairy tales. These characters usually serve as the support of the protagonist, who encounters various problems that cannot be solved alone, or they become the antagonist in the story trying to prevent the main character from achieving his or her goal. The aim of this essay is to highlight the differences between supernatural creatures that appear in…

For example, according to Jonathan Leiter of The Artifice many of “Disney’s features such as Snow White, Fantasia, Pinocchio, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, and Sleeping Beauty, had plenty of mature adult themes...” Another example is Tim Burton, who in two of his movies: The Nightmare Before Christmas, and The Corpse Bride, depict body parts falling out of characters for comic relief. Even the popular Brothers Grimm…

he is to be killed buried” (Grimm 192). The robbers saved him. In both instances, the protagonist went through a trial. The king ordered the boy to obtain three of the Devil’s hairs, while Joseph was put into jail because he was wrongly accused of sleeping with a married man’s wife. In the end, Joseph was put in charge of Egypt, while the fortune child became the…

“happily ever after” fill the children’s aisles at every major retailer. The “Frozen” soundtrack starting with the most recent Disney fantasy featuring two sister princesses, has topped the charts for almost three months. The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Belle and Snow White are certain to come calling upon your entryway on Halloween. The princess culture- fueled by Disney’s multi-billion-dollar stake in it- has a tight grip on standard girlhood and it is here to stay (Orenstein, “Tips for…

Everyone remembers the classic fairy tale The Sleeping Beauty, but few have experienced the fascinating twist that is presented by the Moscow Festival Ballet. Directed by Sergei Radchenko, the audience is left on the edge of their seat at every stage of the three act performance; from the curse set on The Sleeping Beauty to the moment she falls in love and gets married. The captivating story of the Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora) involves multiple elements that all add to the success of the…

Who can’t remember growing up and watching Disney movies as a child? By inspiring children and adults all over the world, Disney is trying to recapture the magic once made by Walt Disney by turning many of the movies in to live action movies, but it has not worked. I think this approach is to sell more of the movies with little to no thought but it is also affecting how young one’s view life and imagination in general. The magic I remember is watching a very beautiful princess singing to…

Fairy tales are often pictured as the stories parents would be reading at bedtime to their children before going to sleep. Mostly made of extraordinary features and starting with the famous “Once Upon a Time” are the stereotypes of fairy tales. Actually, the term fairy tales comes directly from French that is literally translated from contes de fées. In 1698, Countess Aulnoy initiated the use of the term “Contes de Fées” for the title of a book, and others writers started using the same term…

England, Dawn, Lara Descartes, and Melissa Collier-Meek. "Gender Role Portrayal and the Disney Princesses." Sex Roles 64.7/8 (2011): 555-567. Print. Disney’s classic depiction of females as princesses, also infers their submissiveness, inferiority, and fragility in comparison to men’s portrayals as socially, physically, and intellectually dominant. While these roles may change as social proximity to time and space does, these characterizations, split by binaries and marginalized by strict…