sleeping Beauty: Grimm Brothers Version
In the Grimm Brothers version of Sleeping Beauty there are major similarities that are seen through the original version and all of the different adaptations. Once upon a time. there was a Queen who had a beautiful baby daughter. She asked all the fairies in the kingdom to the christening, but unfortunately forgot to invite one of them, who was a bit of a witch as well. She came anyway, but as she passed the baby's cradle, she said: "When you are sixteen, you will injure yourself with a spindle and die!"
she pricked herself with it and. with a sigh, dropped to the floor.
"Oh! What would make her waken?" asked the Queen weeping.
"Love," replied the fairy. "If a man of pure heart was to fall in love with her, that would bring her back to life!"
“How can a man fall in love with a sleeping girl?" sobbed the Queen, and so heart- broken was she that, a few days later, she died. The sleeping Princess was taken to her room and laid on the bed surrounded by garlands of flowers. She was so beautiful,
with a sweet face, not like those of the dead, but pink like those who are sleeping peacefully.
The Grimm Brothers version also has a section of the book where everyone else in the castle where the now sleeping princess lay was to fall asleep so that when sleeping beauty was awaken everyone else in the castle would wake up as well and everything would be back to normal.
When the prince arrived to the castle and saw that everyone was sleeping he was extremely confused and continued to search through the castle, when the prince found the princess he stared at her for a while before learning over to kiss her. The moment the prince kissed the princess the spell was broken and she woke from her slumber as did everyone else in the castle.
A few days later the prince and princess got married and lived happily ever after.Before being introduced to the Brothers Grimm version on the tale of sleeping beauty, I thought that the Disney version was the only one that was created. However when
looking through the original version, I didn’t think it was a dark as some of the other Grimm’s tales and understand why it was not changed as much when it was created throughout the centuries.
she pricked herself with it and. with a sigh, dropped to the floor.
"Oh! What would make her waken?" asked the Queen weeping.
"Love," replied the fairy. "If a man of pure heart was to fall in love with her, that would bring her back to life!"
“How can a man fall in love with a sleeping girl?" sobbed the Queen, and so heart- broken was she that, a few days later, she died. The sleeping Princess was taken to her room and laid on the bed surrounded by garlands of flowers. She was so beautiful,
with a sweet face, not like those of the dead, but pink like those who are sleeping peacefully.
The Grimm Brothers version also has a section of the book where everyone else in the castle where the now sleeping princess lay was to fall asleep so that when sleeping beauty was awaken everyone else in the castle would wake up as well and everything would be back to normal.
When the prince arrived to the castle and saw that everyone was sleeping he was extremely confused and continued to search through the castle, when the prince found the princess he stared at her for a while before learning over to kiss her. The moment the prince kissed the princess the spell was broken and she woke from her slumber as did everyone else in the castle.
A few days later the prince and princess got married and lived happily ever after.Before being introduced to the Brothers Grimm version on the tale of sleeping beauty, I thought that the Disney version was the only one that was created. However when
looking through the original version, I didn’t think it was a dark as some of the other Grimm’s tales and understand why it was not changed as much when it was created throughout the centuries.