Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault and Disney’s animated film are both very similar and different all at the same time.

In both versions, the princess, Aurora in the film, is cursed to die of by a prick to the finger from a spindle but the curse is reversed and instead of death she will be put into a deep sleep. The differences in the version are in Perrault’s, a fairy uninvited to the party curses her and she will wake from a deep sleep in 100 year and a king’s son will awake her. While in Disney’s version Aurora is cursed by Maleficent and her deep sleep will be broken by true loves curse.

The king puts many precautions up to make sure this doesn’t happen but in both versions, the princess finds herself still getting pricked. In Disney’s animated film, Aurora is taken away from the castle by the fairies to make sure she doesn’t get pricked but Maleficent finds her but in Perrault’s she finds her own doom by being curious.

The whole family is put to sleep until the curse is broken. Prince Phillip breaks the curse in Disney’s film after being trapped and held captive by Maleficent. He fell in love with Princess Aurora when he saw her in the woods. The prince in Perrault’s version stumbles upon the castle and after finding out about a prince being the one to wake the princess, he goes and rescues her and they fall in love.

In Perrault’s version, the villain is the fairy for putting her under the curse, but in the end the prince’s mom tries to have the princess killed.

Both stories show the importance of family. The family is put into a sleep along with the princess because they don’t want to leave their child alone. This shows love and how important family is.