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In class, we have read five versions of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, including the version by Tchaikovsky. Write ten sentences describing important details from the version you read and write about one similarity or difference between your version and one other version. Also, write your thoughts about the importance of fairy tales in general and your experience with them as you've been growing up.
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Andrew Park
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According to the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty", my version was Sun, Moon, and Talia by Giambattista Basile. Like most of the other versions, mine had the beginning where a King's daughter was born and a future of hers was to be decided. However, it did not involve an invitation of fairies where one evil one comes in uninvited. Like all versions, the daughter was set to die from a spinning sharp device, which was banned by the king, who ordered them to be burnt. Like most versions, the daughter makes a fatal mistake by following the path to the spinning device and getting her finger stabbed, leading to death. In my version, Talia(Sleeping Beauty) had 2 kids remove the splinter of death that proved she had been in a long sleep. The evil was the queen and her secretary. She wanted Talia and her kids killed and eaten as a meal. A cook is sent to kill and cook them but he does the opposite and the queen's plan backfires. Enraged, she creates bonfire for Talia to be cast in. Instead, the King gets the Queen cast into her own fire. At the end, the king, Talia, and her kids enjoyed their endless happiness for the rest of their lives. As I've been growing up, I felt that fairy tales are just examples of how one goes through melancholy and eventually breaks out of it.
Tristan Liebrock
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According to the version of Sleeping Beauty that I read which was the Grimm Brothers take on the story the queen and king couldn't have a baby like the most of other versions but unlike the others where something weird caused the birth but in their version all that happened was that a crab granted their wish. I have noticed that most versions of the involve some type of magical creatures like either Fairies or Ogres. In my version she doesn't get taken away to hide herself from the spindles, but the king does ban or burn all the spindles. The one thing that I notice all of the stories involve her falling into a sleep instead of dying. All in all the thing that stood out to me the most was the fact that how from what I have heard of other Grimm Brothers stories they are either dark or very grotesque, but this story its very different its almost happy in a way.
GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!
Gracie Legg
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The version of Sleeping Beauty that I read was Sun Moon and Talia. It was about how Talia ran a splinter of flax under her nail and she fell dead. And then she (Talia) got raped by a king. Talia had two babies one was a girl and one was a boy. The babies sucked on her finger to get the splinter out. Then Talia woke up. The king came back and they fell in love. The king’s wife got suspicious. She figured out what was happening so she asked the cook to kill Talia and her two babies (Sun and Moon) and then to feed them to the king. The king figured out what was going on and he demanded that the queen be thrown into then fire that she had prepared to throw Talia into. After all of this the cooks wife brought forth the two children and Talia. The king and Talia got married and lived happily ever after.
I think that Fairy Tales are a part of a child’s life; every child needs to grow up hearing fairy tales because they have been around for so long and they give a kid a good imagination. I don’t like this version of sleeping beauty as much as I like the Disney version.
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In the Brothers Grimm version, I’ve noticed several similarities and differences between the other versions. I noticed an inconstancy with the amount of fairies in the story. In the Grimm version, there were 12 good fairies and 1 bad fairy. In the original there weren’t any fairies, and the Disney only had 3 fairies and a witch. There always seems to be a beautiful princess who has to sleep, and gets awoken. The Tchaikovsky clips we saw were very graceful, but not as dramatic as other operas, like Rigoletto at the end. It did have very strong dancers, and I look forward to see the real performance in a couple weeks. I did notice that the original versions of many fairy tales were very dark, with really strong messages. The original Pinocchio was very toned down in the Disney version, like making Gepetto seem less angry with his neighbors. Fairy tales are very important to children as they teach important morals, while scaring them about the real dangers of their time, like wolfs in the woods.
Madison Ferris
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The version my group read was "Sun, Moon and Talia". Some of the important parts of the story were first, that Talia the main character was born to a lord. Her father banned flax and hemp from their house, because astrologers and wise men predicted she would get a splinter of flax in her. She touched a women's spindle one day and got poisoned by the flax and died. Her father closed his house down and put Talia under a sheet. A king found her, raped her. She later had twins. The twins sucked the splinter of flax out of her hand and she came back to life. The king returned and Talia didn't know what had happened. The king's wife figured out that they had kids together, tried to get the king to unknowingly consume the babies in different dishes. The king ended up happily ever after with Talia in the end. One similarity was that in both the Brothers Grimm version, as well as ours (and all the others), the main princess character was always poisoned by touching a spindle. In general, I think fairy tales as a child are so important, especially for little girls. They foster an imagination. They let you escape from reality and dream. They are just happy stories that are fun to know about and watch. Growing up, I dressed up like all the princesses, went to Disneyland multiple times, watched all the good, main Disney movies. Watching/ learning about different airytales were something I'll always remember.
Mack Ohnemus
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I read the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty. The king and queen want to have a kid, so they end up having a daughter and name her Aurora. At the baby shower, the evil Maleficent puts a death curse on the baby because she was not invited. One of the good fairies changes the curse for Aurora to only fall asleep until kissed by a true love. The 3 fairies raise Aurora in the woods as a peasant. On her 16th birthday, she is sent out to gather berries while the fairies use their magic for the first time in years to make a birthday cake and dress. While in the forest, Aurora meets a boy and dances and sings with him and then they fall in love. Later we find out that him and Aurora were betrothed to each other. While left alone in the castle Aurora follows a strange light to a spinning wheel, which of course she touches and falls into a deep sleep. After some Prince-Maleficent fighting in the forest, the prince arrives at the castle and kisses Aurora awake. They live happily ever after.
One difference between the version and other versions is the use of music and dancing. For example, when the two young loves fall in love with each other after dancing and signing in the woods. Another difference would be that this version is much longer. 75 minutes movies compared to 3 or 4 pages.
Fairy tales are important because they teach kids valuable lessons, for example: doing something bad will result in a bad consequence. As well as knowing that these stories have been passed down generation to generation, so there is a lot of sentimental value in them.
Isabelle Carson
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I read Sun Moon and Talia as a version of Sleeping Beauty. This is the original story written by Giambattista Basile. It starts out with a lord having a daughter, Talia, and some astrologers come to predict her future. They prophesize that Talia will get a splinter of flax in her and this will cause her to die. When she gets a little older, she comes across an old woman carrying around spindles. Talia gets a splinter under her nail and dies. The lord locks her away in a house far away. One day a king goes hunting nearby and his falcon flies into the house. The king sees a beautiful woman, sleeps with her and goes back. Talia has two children, Sun and Moon, who start to suck her fingers while looking for food. They suck the splinter out and Talia comes back to life. The king returns and they fall in love. The queen who gets suspicious of her husbands behavior, sends the secretary to retrieve the children, which she then plans to cook and feed them to the king. But the cook feels pity for the kids and hides them away. Then the queen tells the secretary to retrieve Talia, who she plans to burn alive. While Talia is burning, she takes off a piece of clothing and screams each time. The king hears her and kills the queen and the secretary. The cook returns the children. One difference in this version from the Disney version (or any of the other ones for that matter) is that the king basically rapes her instead of just kissing her. In the end it’s not a true loves kiss but two hungry babies that bring her back to life. I feel that fairytales are important because they are made to teach children life tips.
Jessica Bruce
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In the version of the story I read, the prince's mother is a ogress. She was put in control of the kingdom while the king went off to war. Apparently ogresses like eating people. The King's mother asked her cook to prepare sleeping beauty's little boy for dinner, instead the cook cooked a lamb. The same thing happened with sleeping beauty and her daughter. When the prince's mother found out that she didn't actually eat her grandkids and daughter-in-law she was really mad. She made people put a bunch of snakes and other venomous things in a big pot and was going to throw the cook, his wife, sleeping beauty, and the kids into it. Thankfully the price came back from war and saved them. Unlike the disney story there are ogres not dragons, and sleeping beauty wakes up without being kissed.
fairy tales are important because as they are retold they connect different generations together with one common story.
Elena Wagar
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The version of Sleeping Beauty that I read which was the Grimm Brothers. It started off as the queen and king wanted a baby but they couldn't have one. In our story there was a crab and he kept telling the queen she was going to have a baby and the crab granted their wish. On her 15th birthday she got pricked by the spindle and the whole town fell asleep. I noticed that in all the versions the queen wants a baby and the queen gets pricked on one of her birthdays. I've also noticed the she doesn't just die she falls a sleep. I think fairy tails are very important to kids. It teaches them to have a big imagination and you get to dress up as princesses or your favorite disney characters.
Lily Kristjanson
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In class, I read the Little Brier-Rose version of Sleeping Beauty. In this version as in many, the king and queen wanted a child, but yet were unable to. A crab then crawled out of the king and queen’s bathtub to grant them their wish of having a child. Out of excitement the King threw a party and invite twelve of the thirteen fairies in the kingdom, because he only had twelve plates available. The thirteenth fairy then cursed their baby, saying that when she turned fifteen, she would be pricked by a spindle and die. To counteract this first curse, the twelfth fairy said she would sleep for a hundred years rather than die. Once fifteen, the princess, was pricked by a spindle and fell to a sleep of a hundred years. Many princes tried to reach her, but were unable to because of the thorns that surrounded the castle. When one prince approached the thorns, they turned to flowers and separated, allowing him to reach the castle. The prince then kissed the princess and in that moment she woke from her sleep. The prince and princess then got married and lived happily ever after until they died. This version of Sleeping Beauty is most similar to the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty. I think there is a great importance behind fairytales. They open up a great world of imagination and interpretation. My favorite part about fairytales, is that overtime the entire story can change depending on who is sharing it and what new information they choose to bring in.
Abbey Folsom
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I read the Grimm Brothers version of Sleeping Beauty. The King and Queen desperately want a child but are unable to have one until one day a crab pops out of the bathtub and announces that they will have a child. Then once they had their daughter the King threw a party for his daughter but could only invite 12 of the 13 fairies. Once the 13th fairy found out about the party she became very angry and when she showed up she cursed the child at age 15 she will prick herself on a needle and die, but the 12th fairy wished that it will only be a 100 years sleep. On Brier Rose's 15th birthday she found a spindle and pricked herself causing the whole palace to fall into a deep sleep for a hundred years. Many princes came and tried to set her free but they were unable to cut through the thorn bushes until one prince came and the bushes turned into flowers and he was able to kiss Brier Rose and break the curse. This version was probably the most like the Disney version just with less action and "violence". Most of the other stories include more detail about what happened just not in a kid-friendly way like The Grimm Brothers wanted. I think that fairy tales help make a kids imagination grow. It also helps them become more creative.
Riley Schroeder
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In class the version of Sleeping Beauty that I read was The Sun, the Moon, and Talia and it was an interesting story. I wasn't too familiar with the story or if i had even seen the Disney version before so i didn't know too much beyond she falls asleep and a prince would wake her up. That wasn't exactly the case in the version that i read, but i feel like the main thing that happened in every story was the reason she fell asleep, or died in the version i read, was because of a splinter from a spindle. Along with that, every other story seemed to have the reason for her falling asleep was the curse of a fairy who was angry for not being invited to the birth. There was a lot of weird continuity between all of these versions, which i feel would happen with any fairy tale being retold, but enjoyed the activity of reading and then sharing with the class. It gave us a broader view of what influenced this performance, and gave us a bigger idea of what the back story for Sleeping Beauty is. It isn't my favorite fairy tale, i'm not sure which is, but it doesn't seem quite as solid of a story as other more familiar stories. Regardless i am very excited to see the ballet because i have never seen one before, and i really do enjoy fairy tales, even if it isn't the best one. I just really enjoy how whimsical and magical fairy tales are, the majority manage to teach lessons as well as still teaching the whole "happily ever after" optimistic outlook on life. I can't exactly place why, but i just love the way fairy tales play out and can be so engaging with such great lore. I've always loved fairy tales, so this performance has been one that i have been looking forward to all year.
Mallori Lindberg Period 4
ReplyDeleteMy tale that my group read was Sun, Moon, and Talia by Giambattista Basile. My first impression was that it was gory and unrealistic compared to other Sleeping Beauty tales I have read before. Like the other ones, Sleeping Beauty was cursed and put to sleep by a sharp object (the splinter) which puts her on her death bed for a long time until the King comes around. I thought it was disgusting that the Queen wanted to cook the children and feed them to her husband as a consequence for having an affair with sleeping beauty. I like happy fairytales that have good endings and aren't messed up like this one. I am used to the Disney versions, that I grew up knowing. I would want to be in the fairytale, although this one is completely opposite. Im glad I got to read different versions of this story because I didn't even know there were other ones other than the Disney version.
Chris Root
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Schindler, this is super bowl weekend, and we shouldn't have a blog! But ill do it anyways. I read the version of the wood where the princes mother was an ogress. According to the story, ogresses like eating people, so the kings mother ordered her to kill and cook Sleeping Beauty's children. The cook didn't have the heart to do so, so he killed a lamb instead. When she found out that it wasn't the children, she got extremely mad and cooked a big pot of nasty things like snakes and spiders and was going to throw the cook, Sleeping Beauty, the kids, and the cooks wife into it. Luckily the prince came back from war to save them. I think fairy tales are important because they establish an imagination to children. That is important throughout you whole life.
Byron Murray
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In the version of Sleeping Beauty that I read it was about a girl named Talia who was prophesized to die when she encountered flax. Once Talia’s parents learned about the prophecy they kept her away from all hemp and flax but one day she got a splinter of flax caught under her nail and went into a deep sleep for a very long time. Then a king was on a hunting trip and happened upon the house that Talia was asleep in where her parents left her. When the king went into the house and saw Talia he fell in love with her and got her pregnant and then left and a while later Talia gave birth to a boy and a girl and then the babies accidently sucked the flax out from under her nail and she woke up. The king later returned to the house and found Talia with their two children and was overjoyed and promised to visit them and that he would bring Talia back to the castle with him. Eventually the kings wife heard about Talia and her children and told the cook to kill the kids and turn them into a hundred different dishes and then feed them to the king, but the cook didn’t kill the kids and instead kept them and fed the king two lambs he turned into a hundred different dishes. The queen was still not satisfied with the fact that she believed she forced her husband to eat his children so she tricked Talia into going to the castle and tried to burn her alive. Fortunately the king stumbled upon the queen trying to throw Talia into a pit of fire and stopped her and then threw the queen and the man who helped trick Talia and steal her children. The king was then reunited with his children Sun and Moon along with Talia and he thanked the cook by giving him a handsome reward and making him a chamberlain and then lived happily ever after. A part of this story that was a common theme in all the stories was Sleeping Beauty being put to sleep after getting pricked by a splinter of flax or a spindle. In my opinion the importance of fairy tales would be to instill morals or ideas into small children.
Nessa Broughton
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The one I read was the good old Disney which everyone knows and love/hates. There are many differences between the immensely watered down Disney version and all the more creative and violent tales. The main one the really stood out to me was that Sleep Beauty had children in almost every other version and in those versions some older female wished to eat the children.
I have very mixed feelings about fairy tales. On one hand I enjoy them as stories but on the other they are awful examples of how to act if you are female. If you are stuck in a tower by a witch, stab the witch with anything handy and make a rope from your hair. If you are going to die if you prick your finger wear gloves and take a sword to the fairy that cursed you. Don't eat apples that hags give you. That's like not getting poisoned 101 right there. Why does it always have to be a prince that saves you? Let's have a fairy tale where the knight in shinning armor is a woman and when she gets to the castle the princess has already cooked the dragon up and they all sit down to a nice dinner.
Danielle Knapik
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The version I read was very similar to the Disney version, except there were a few distinct plot changes. In this version, the princes mother was an ogress. She demanded the prince to kill sleeping beauty's children, but he did not want to do that. Instead, he pretended he did and killed a lamb instead. The mother grew suspicious and knew that he hadn't done as she pleased, so she decided she herself would kill them all. She wanted to cook up a boiling pot of gross things and throw Sleeping Beauty and her children, and others into the pot to kill them herself. Fortunately, the prince was able to return home before that went down. This version is similar to Disney up until the face that the princes mother turns out to be a human eating ogress.
My experience with fairy tales is somewhat minimal. As a kid I didn't watch all the Disney movies and read princess books at night so I still don't know many of the classic tales. I've never seen Sleeping Beauty so reading these in class was the first time I had any context of this story and what it is beyond knowing it was something about a princess who had been asleep for many years. I definitely think they are important to know of and have a general of because understanding and knowing about pop culture will help you out throughout your whole life, whether it's just in a conversation or how well you understand something you see. I also think that though they are appealing to children and even adults at times, they send off somewhat inaccurate messages. Many fairy tales follow a basic plot of a distressed woman who can't help herself, so she needs a man to come along, pick her up off her feet and make everything better. In actuality, that's not exactly how it works in real life and children can be easily deceived. Not all fairy tales follow that plot line, but I do think it's important to know what is real and what isn't and for many children reading fairy tales they don't understand what can happen in their own lives and what can't. Fairy tales are a fun read and something to believe in, but you can't get too entrapped in any one idea that a fairy tale put in your head.
Jace Brandmeier
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In class my group read The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, By Charles Perrault. In the story there was a king and a queen who wanted a daughter. When they had a daughter, 7 fairies came. Then one of the fairies cursed the princess. Then one of the good fairies tried to save her, but she couldn’t so she put her in a deep sleep for a long time. Years later she woke up, and met a prince and they had kids. The prince’s mother said she would eat his kids. The next day, the steward switched out the kids for some lamb meat, and tricked the mother into eating it. Our version of the fairy tale had the same scenario with the eating of the kids and the lamb meat in it. I think that fairy tales are important because they stimulate the imagination and they are a great way to tell stories. When I was little I was never told very many fairy tales, but the ones I was told I can remember pretty well.
Claire Kennedy
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In class, I read the Grimm Brothers version of Sleeping Beauty. In this version, the King and Queen wanted a baby but were unable to have one. One day, a crab crawls out of their bath tub and tells them that their wish will come true and they will have a baby. The King threw a huge party, but could only invite 12 of the 13 fairies due to lack of place settings. The left out fairy crashed the party and cursed the baby that at the age of 15 she will prick her finger and die. Luckily, the 12th fairy made it so it would only be 100 years of sleep instead of death. On her 15th birthday, she ended up pricking herself as the fairy said and the whole palace fell asleep for 100 years. Many princes tried saving her but failed, until one day a prince arrived and the thorns surrounding the tower turned to flowers, allowing the prince to save her. I think this version was most like the Disney version in that it was the least detailed in violence. I think fairy tales are definitely important while we’re young. They give a sense of hope and imagination in young kid’s minds, which is lost too soon as we grow up.
Conor Grasso P3
ReplyDeleteThe version of sleeping beauty i read was the one with the prince with the ogress mother. Once the prince rescues the princess, he lives a double life with his ogre mom and the royal family. after two years and a couple children, he reveals his other life to his mother. Obviously the most logical thing to do is try and eat her own grandchildren, so she tries to cook them. The steward saves the kids though, and kills some livestock in place of the youngins. The prince eventually finds out about his mothers antics, and out of shame or something, she jumps in a vat of creepy vermin and perishes. Then its a happily ever after story. I thought it was strange that a handsome fairy-tale worthy prince would have a child eating ogre for a mother, how that happens, im not sure. The story was the same as the disney version besides that. It was much less grim than the other versions, like the one where the princess is raped in her sleep but still has a strange twist to it.
Kristina Lebakken
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The version of The Sleeping Beauty that my group read was the Disney Version. This is probably the version that most of us know the best from our childhood and it is also probably the most different from the original. Some changes I noticed was that in the Disney story she was asleep for a small amount of time. I believe in the other stories she would have been asleep for 100 hundred years. Also in my story there was only one bad fairy, and three good fairies. And it was the three good fairies who raised her and wouldn't tell her who she truly was. I noticed in some of the other stories that all the spindles were ordered to be destroyed as well. It was interesting hearing all the different versions of a story that I learned of as a child. The original version of how she was asleep and then was raped and had children all while she was under a spell. I have always thought of Sleeping Beauty as a child's story and was really surprised to hear the other versions of the story.
Arezu Abdollmohammadi
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My group had the Walt Disney version of Sleeping Beauty. This version, compared to the others, was almost kind of soft and fluffy. There was no tragic ending, and nothing too dark about the story. This version was definitely created for kids. It was about a princess who was cursed by Maleficent that she will die by the age of 16 by pricking her finger on a spindle. But the princess has three good fairies who were able to change the curse to just her sleeping. Eventually a prince slays Maleficent who turns into a dragon and wakes the princess with a kiss. I remember another group telling the Charles Perrault and how the princess was put in a deep sleep and got raped by a prince and when she woke she had kids and then someone wanted to kids cooked and served to the prince. That is way more gory and violent than the disney version.
The only fairy tales i have ever known were disney ones, and they always ended happily. I could not imagine growing up knowing gory and violent fairy tales.
John Ross
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the version of the story I read was Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. Sleeping Beauty was put in control of the kingdom while the king went off to war. Apparently ogresses like eating people. The King's mother asked her cook to prepare sleeping beauty's little boy for dinner, instead the cook cooked a lamb. The same thing happened with sleeping beauty and her daughter. When the prince's mother found out that she didn't actually eat her grandkids and daughter-in-law she was really mad. She made people put a bunch of snakes and other venomous things in a big pot and was going to throw the cook, his wife, sleeping beauty, and the kids into it. Thankfully the price came back from war and saved them. Unlike the disney story there are ogres not dragons, and sleeping beauty wakes up without being kissed.
In the Walt Disney version, I read The Sleeping Beauty. This version was about how the king and Queen wanted a child. So they had one and named her Aurora. The king and queen invited three fairies and the three fairies were giving her gifts. When Maleficent found out she wasn't invited, she put a spell on the child. The spell was that aurora will prick her finger on a spindle as she'll die. So the third fairy put a changes the curse on Aurora where she will only be awakened by a true loves kiss when pricked by the spindle. Until then, the fairies raised Aurora under a different name. On her birthday, she was out in the woods when she met a boy. And she fell in love with him and he liked her too. When she was alone in a castle, she found a spinning wheel and touched it, causing her to fall into a deep sleep. Maleficent and the prince got into a fight and the prince won. Then he went to the castle and kissed Aurora awake. And then the whole castle woke up too.
ReplyDeleteOne similarity between this and all the other different versions of sleeping beauty was that it started with a child. One difference was how there were different deaths to it.
Fairy tales were fun to grow up with and to watch or read but they weren't really realistic.
Amy Stults, Period 3
ReplyDeleteI had the version of sleeping beauty where the princes mother was an ogress that of which wanted to eat the children of her son, as well as her sons wife, the princess. This is the first I have ever been exposed to this version of sleeping beauty. To be honest this story sort of shattered the memories that I have of Walt Disney’s sleeping beauty. There are many concepts that remained the same, such as the king and queen having a daughter, the fairies blessing the child, and the curse of the pricking of the princesses finger on a spindle. However there are many other details that are different. One example is how many fairies there are involved in the blessing of the princess. Another example is how the prince goes about waking the princess, and another yet is what comes after the prince and princess are together. As I’ve gotten older, one thing I realize about fairy tales is how when you’re a child you tend to believe in them a whole lot more then when you’re older. Children have a sort of ignorance to the reality behind certain human constructs. I guess this proves the saying “Ignorance is bliss” to be truthful.
Sean Rankin
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This week we focused on reading different versions of sleeping beauty. The one my group read and decided to act out was the brothers grimm version. I noticed that it was very different than the rest of the stories not because of different details it seemed like it didnt have any detail at all. No names, or descriptions of events going on. I was reading the back of the packet and it said that the story just took the most important events and listed them without filling the story with "fluff" that doesn't help you get the message of the story. It might not be as exciting as some or as weird as others but i thought that this version did an really good job of laying out the story of sleeping beauty. From someone who never watched/read anything sleeping beauty related I thought it was a nice story and I'm excited to see the performance.
Mark Gibbons
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My group read the Sun, Moon, and Talia by Giambattista Basile. My impression was that it was gory and unrealistic compared to other Sleeping Beauty tales I have read before.Sleeping Beauty was cursed and put to sleep by a sharp object which puts her on her death bed for a long time until the King comes around. I thought it was disgusting that the Queen wanted to cook the children and feed them to her husband as a consequence for having an affair with sleeping beauty. I don't really like fairy tails and this was one was really messed up.I'm glad I got to read different versions of this story because I didn't even know there were other ones other than the Disney version but I didn't like any of them. It was really boring.
Austin Stenberg
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My group had the version from Disney. This version was my favorite of all of them because it was the one I remembered from my childhood and what I grew up with. In this story there was no tragic ending or anything to “scary”. It was about a princess that got cursed by a bad fairy by pricking her finger on a spinning wheel needle and falling asleep for 100 years. But there was a way to break the spell by the princess getting a kiss from a prince. Then waking up in love with this prince. In another group the story was told by the princess falling asleep and getting raped and having kids. When she woke up she had no memory of getting raped or having these kids. Also someone wanted to have these kids killed and cooked to be served to the prince. Which is way too dark and evil for anything I’m interested in. In all the fairy tails I grew up with always ended happily ever after and I couldn’t imagine growing up with these dark and evil stories.
Spencer Read
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My group was assigned the Walt Disney Sleeping Beauty. It was very friendly and happy. It didn't have that old, creepy European fairy tale to it. It was very happy and was clearly made for children. Whereas traditional fairy tales are scary and violent. Being in German for 10th and 11th grade, i learned a lot about traditional fairy tales. In America, Fairy tales have been cushioned to be fun and cute, but fairy tales were originally nothing like that. This is especially true with cultures that believe in witches and demons and what not. Growing up, i was never really told stories. It was never really a part of my life, and it never really interested me. The only fairy tales i ever knew were things like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, because my sisters loved the movies.
Julia McMichael
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I read the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty. In this version the King and Queen have a daughter who they name Aurora/Briar Rose. They throw a baby shower for her and invite three good fairies but don't invite the bad fairy. Malificent the bad fairy is angered by not being invited and curses a spell upon Aurora that at the age of 16 she will prick her hand on a spinning wheel and die. The three good fairies are not able to stop this curse but are able to change parts of it, that she will instead not die but will be asleep for 100 years until her true loves kiss. After the baby shower Aurora is sent to go live in the woods with the good fairies and the King and Queen order for all the spindles to be burned. After 16 years have passed, they ask Aurora to go into the forest to collect berries so they can work on her surprise birthday dress and cake. In the forest she meets a young man and they dance and sing together. While making the dress and cake they use magic which attracts a raven that Malificent sent looking for Aurora. The three fairies bring Aurora back home to the castle where they tell her she is a princess. While there she goes to the top of the tower and sees a spindle and pricks get finger. She goes into a deep sleep. Malificent captures the man from the woods who is actually Prince Phillip. He then escapes and Malificent turns into a dragon and Prince Phillip kills her. He then goes to Aurora and kisses her awake and they then live happily ever after. In the other versions of Sleeping Beauty there is no Prince to come save her and Malificent doesn't turn into a dragon. In the another version the evil person is the Queen that wants to burn her but the King saves Aurora and kills his wife because he is in love with Aurora. I personally like the Disney version more because it is what I grew up watching and I think that as a children's film a happy ending is appropriate.
Grace Nelson. Period 3. The version of Sleeping Beauty that my group read was the Little Brier-Rose version by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. This version seems most like the Disney version that I know so very well because it seemed less grotesque than the others and a tab bit more kid-friendly. In this version, much like the others, it starts off with a king and queen desperately wanting a child. The child's birth happens because of different reasons in the different versions. In this version a crab crawls out from a bathtub and says that they will have a daughter. The king then throws a party where he is only able to invite twelve of the thirteen fairies because of the place settings available. On the daughter's fifteenth birthday she is pricked by a spindle and the entire palace fell asleep for 100 years. Many princes came to rescue her from the curse but they all failed to get through the shrubs and thorns but one day a prince was able to turn the thorns to flowers and rescue her with a kiss. I think fairy tales are very important, especially for a child because they help broaden the imagination. Also, I think it's really cool that there are so many different versions of the fairy tales that we know and love because it keeps us guessing and the stories never get old.
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The version my group was assigned was "Sun, Moon and Talia".Talia was the main character who touched a women's spindle and got poisoned by the flax. A king found her, and raped her, as she later gave birth to twins. The twins sucked the splinter of flax out of her hand and she came back to life. As the king returned to Talia, she was unaware of what exactly happened, but was told by the king he was indeed the father of the twins.The king's wife was disturbed to hear of the affair her husband had, and sent a secretary to the woman saying to send the twins as the father would like to see them, so he happily did upon the request. However, the wife had an evil plan to have the twins cooked into several dishes secretly, and served to her husband. The cook could never do such a thing, and instead cooked dishes made with lamb. Personally, i did not like this version. I did see similarities with the spindle, and the prince coming to the palace, but still not a version i would choose because it involved scenes of rape and cooking children into several dishes. I personally, would rather read or see versions with happier endings, rather than tragic scenes.
Mimi Gerhardt, Period 4
ReplyDeleteMy group read "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" by Charles Perrault. In this version, like most, the king and queen try to have a child for years. The two eventually succeed and have a beautiful princess for a daughter. However, the child gets cursed that she will get pricked in the hand with a spindle and be in a deep sleep for one hundred years. Finally, the years pass and a prince finds the princess and awakes her from her deep slumber. The two have children together and the princess decides she wants to have her children cooked by her prince's ogress mother so she can eat them. Instead of killing the two kids, the ogress slaughters and cooks a goat and a lamb. The prince's mother hides the children to create the illusion that the princess actually did eat her own children, yet again similar to other stories shared in class as well. Growing up, I was only told the Disney version of fairy tales. These always ended with true love and "happily ever afters". After reading and listening to the different versions of "The Sleeping Beauty", it really made me feel different towards fairy tales! I had always seen them as happy, childish stories. In reality, these tales were very morbid and, in reality, very inappropriate for children to read due to all the violence and other adulterated scenarios, such as the princess getting raped in one version of "The Sleeping Beauty". Reading the fairy tale the Disney version was based off of makes me somewhat upset knowing that some of my favorite fairy tales as a child weren't as happy as I thought they were!
Joey Keating
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The version of Sleeping Beauty that my group read was the Walt Disney Version. This version was what I assume everybody thinks of Sleeping Beauty as. I believe that because it was the nicer, cleaner and more friendly version. This was because of the fact that Walt Disney writes movies and stories that are for little kids. I learned that although this was a very acceptable fairy tale, most fairy tails are not like that. We were taught in class that Fairy tails were told to kids to scare them. People would try to scare kids with them so they wouldn't do bad things. These modern day Fairy tales are now obviously more nice and sweet compared to what they were. I like the way that they are created today because I don't like to have tragic things in childhood movies. Also, after reading the play I didn't know that when I saw the movie as a child, that it was so dark and tragic.
Taylor Ingrum
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My group's version of Sleeping Beauty was The Little Brier-Rose written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. This version is most similar to the Disney version that we all know today. The story starts off with a King and a Queen being granted the ability to have a child. The King then throws a huge party to celebrate, but doesn't invite one fairy because there aren't enough table sets. The uninvited fairy becomes very upset and casts a spell on the princess saying that when she turns fifteen, she will prick her finger on a spindle and she will fall asleep for one hundred years. Scared, the king orders that all the spindles be burned and banishes any sewing from there on. On the Princess's fifteenth birthday, she pricked herself and the whole kingdom fell asleep. Many princes heard of the story and tried to save her but could never get past the thorns surrounding the castle. One day, a prince was able to get past the thorns and high bushes and give her a kiss that would wake her up. Once she awoke, the whole kingdom came back awake as well and they all lived happily ever after until they died. It was a light hearted and simple story that could be read to any little kid without giving them nightmares. However, other versions were not the same. I knew that many of the Disney fairy tales are originated from dark stories but I didn't know Sleeping beauty could be as dark as some of the other versions read aloud. Fairy tales are so important to children because it helps them visualize and broaden their imaginations. As a child I loved being told stories and imagining the story in my head or acting out a fairy tale with my friends.
Robert Hawley
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The tail of Sleeping Beauty that I read was a bit darker than the one I remember from my childhood. The antagonist changed to be the mother of the prince, who in this rendition, is an ogre who likes to devour human flesh. I found that the way she was portrayed was the major difference when it came to the original (or at least the version I deem the original). This version was written by a Frenchman, so the difference in cultures is unmistakable. I think that the importance of fairy tales in cultures is an integral part of any developing society. Without stories like these, there is very little philosophical or mental growth. Most fairy tales have an antagonist, and this antagonist becomes a thing that people will associate with fear. And as strange as it sounds, fear is actually a good thing in some cases. Fear gives you something to struggle with and overcome, it is integral to the development of the mind. But this comes in conflict with the idea that if you make the fear a very real and present threat, the person who is affected by this fear cannot overcome it. This is a problem I see with modern tales, we don't really use fairies much any more when we make stories. Now this is also a reason as to why we still tell the old fairy tales, because they are innocent, non-realistic, and are easy to cope with should fear ever actually arise. In short, mature and realistic stories, are best left to the mature. And fairy tales are best told to the innocent and young, because they can be dealt with.
Joshua Scheck Period 3
ReplyDeleteI read the Sun, Moon, and Talia version of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. In my version of the story, A lord has a child, whom he names Talia and he gathers all the intellectuals of the nearing lands to determine her future. They determined that she would be killed from a splinter of flax, therefore her father decided to ban all such materials from being nearby her. But one day an old woman was spinning and she basically touched the flax and a splinter went under her nail and killed her. The lord decided to abandon the mansion and eventually, a king came and discovered Talia’s body. He rapes her and leaves but she has two kids while she is dead, who were attended by two fairies. Her two children, Sun and Moon sucked her fingers one time because they were trying to milk but were not sucking the correct source. The splinter of flax came out and then she came back alive and the king came back and visited her. The queen eventually found out and created a scheme to kill Talia and her children, but she failed miserably and the king threw her into a bonfire. The king then married Talia with the moral of the story being that some people are luckier than others while sleeping. My story was a lot stranger than others and incorporated many creepy elements such as rape, death, and cannibalism. Other stories seemed a lot more normal and generally were a lot less gloomy than mine. I feel that fairy tales are very monumental in the early years of our life because they aid in the development of our character by endowing us with many morals of which help in the development of our values.
Wyatt Smith
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My groups version was about a very beautiful princess getting pricked by a spindle and falling asleep along with everyone else in the castle. Then one day a prince saves her by waking her up with a kiss. This like all the other versions of sleeping beauty, involves a princess falling asleep and having to have a prince awake her somehow. The difference between the stories is the way the princess falls asleep. I really like fairy tales. I think they are good for your imagination and also allows you to dream.
Brandon Penoyer
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I luckily got the version of Sleeping Beauty I was already familiar with: The Disney animated film. Unlike some of the others, the evil Maleficent plays a much larger role, not only cursing Aurora when she's young, but returning to follow through with her curse 16 years later. The three fairies also stick around a longer time to raise Aurora in secret as Briar Rose. Instead of a 100 year sleep, the prince is able to save Aurora very early on from the curse. It's had added story line pieces, such as Maleficent turning into a dragon, to add action to the story where there is normally much less. One connection it has to the ballet version by Tchaikovsky is the castle being sealed in brambles and vines as the princess sleeps, but it is the work of Maleficent in the Disney version and the kind Lilac Fairy in the ballet.
The only Fairy Tales I really grew up with were those much like the Disney interpretations of the tales, most being much more kid friendly than the original versions. They were essential for me as a child, as they helped form my imagination and childish belief in magic, which were extremely important when I was young.
Sarah Porter
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As a child, I was used to the standard, always happy Disney princess movies. For example, I grew up with a very innocent telling of “Sleeping Beauty”. However, I have learned this past week that while the main idea of the story always generally stays the same, there are many different versions of this story. The version of this fairytale my group read was “Sun, Moon, and Talia”, written by Giambattista Basile. It began with a lord and his wife having a baby named Talia. They send for astrologers to determine her horoscope, and find that one day she will be in danger by a splinter of flax. Despite her father banning flax from his house, Talia finds an old lady spinning flax and gets a splinter, falling unconscious. Later, a king is hunting in the woods nearby, and upon finding Talia, he tries to wake her up, but since she doesn’t wake up he instead rapes her and leaves. After 9 months, Talia gives birth to two children, Sun and Moon, while she is still asleep. One of the babies starts sucking Talia’s thumb, and the splinter comes out, causing her to wake up. The king comes back, and seeing Talia with his children, promises to return to see her. However, his wife, the queen, finds out about the king’s affair and sends for the children to come to the court. She orders the cook to kill the children and serve them to the king without him knowing. The queen then brings Talia to the court, and orders to have her thrown in to the fireplace. The king arrives and, seeing what is going on, orders for the queen to be thrown into the flames. The cook presents the two children, and the king and Talia marry. After hearing all of the other versions of the story, I think that this version was maybe the furthest telling from the Disney version we all know.
Evyn Anderson
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My group read the version of sleeping beauty by Disney. This is the version that my generation has grown up with. In this version, Aurora is born and three fairies named Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather come to bless her with gifts such as beauty. Then, the evil fairy named Maleficent appears and curses her with death when she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel. In order to protect Aurora the three fairies take her to the woods to live with them. They also change her name to Briar Rose in order to protect her beauty. She grows up and one day catches the attention of prince Phillip. They fall in love and want to be together but because she is only known to be a peasant girl, this cannot be. Eventually, Aurora is put under a deep sleep and is awoken by true loves kiss. They live happily ever after. The difference between my version and the Tchaikovsky version is that the Disney version is way less violent. Fairy tales are both important and detrimental to a child's upbringing. While they teach the important lesson of imagination and creativity, they also introduce impossible standards for kids to live up to, such as princess-like beauty/perfection and love at first sight.
Michael Stiles
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My group was assigned "Sun, Moon, and Talia" In this version of The sleeping beauty fairy tale it is predicted that Talia will fall asleep and that the gods will awake her which is different to what most of us know of the story with the her falling asleep and and being awoken by a kiss. In our version the gods came to awake her and she gave birth to two babies. Fairy tales are much more then just stories that we enjoy as kids, I see many life lessons that we can take away from them. When I was little I was told of the "3 little pigs" and "Little red riding hood" and I enjoyed them but later as I got older I realized the message within these stories of working hard and being patient pays off and that conformity leads to danger. I find it funny that when were little we listen to fairy tales and when were old we tell them.
Mano Barkovics / Period 4
ReplyDeleteMy version of the Sleeping Beauty was the one by Walt Disney: Synopsis which was released in 1959. This film was the most expensive film ever made in that time period. Most Disney films starts out positively or have a common introduction, such as "In a far away land, long ago" and the Sleeping Beauty is no different. The film starts with King Stefan and his wife the Queen had a daughter who they named Aurora. During the celebration of Aurora's birth 3 fairies gave her gifts but before the last one could give her the gift the evil Maleficient appeares and was angry because she was not invited. She curses Aurora and leaves but luckily the last fairy could change the curse so instead of Aurora passing away on her 16th birthday she would just go to sleep and only woken up by true loves kiss. 16 years passed, Aurora found a young man who she likes, goes back to the castle, and touches the spindle and falls asleep. Everyone in the castle falls asleep. Fairies search for the prince (young man), they find him, brings him back to the castle but before he can kiss Aurora he has to fight off Maleficent who turned into a dragon. After the kiss the whole castle wakes up, Aurora meets her parent's and and the prince and the princess lives happily after. This version is different from the other Sleeping Beauty versions by that in the others Maleficent doesn't turns into a dragon and there is no prince who saves Aurora in the story either. In another version Maleficent is represented by an ogre instead if a fairy. Some other versions have more than 4 fairies. Also the Disney film is an hour and a half long instead of 3 or 4 pages, which means there is a lot of extra content in the film. Fairy stories are important because they were passed down by generations and it's always changing since people tell stories differently every time they tell it. Also, kids enjoy these stories because it's innocent in a way and it's easy to understand the story. It teaches them that if they make bad choices then there is going to be bad consequences. Finally, almost every fairy tale ends in a positive/happy/cheerful way and puts a smile on the reader.
Campbell Gunnell
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my group read "the sleeping beauty in the wood". this story was pretty much just a darker version of the Disney movie. the 7 fairies came and then one bad one cursed her and she fell asleep for a hundred years. then just like in the other versions a prince kisses her and she wakes up. the different part Is that she is then hidden from the palace until the king dies then the prince takes her to the palace. when he leaves for war his mother the ogre tries to eat snow white and her two children, but the mom kills her self when the prince finds out. fairy tails play an important role in society because they stimulate the imagination and make children dream of a different reality. it is this dream that can drive children to change their current reality.
Maddy Nehme P.3
ReplyDeleteThe version my group had was very similar to the Disney version however it had a few differences. In my version of the story, there were 7 fairies instead of 3, also "Maleficent" was the 8th fairy who was not invited (not sure why) and because she was not invited she became very angry and showed up at the baby shower. She then confronted the kind and queen and casts a curse upon the baby princess. In the Disney version, there are only 3 fairies, and maleficent is not a fairy she is an evil queen who was also upset that she was no invited. Another difference was that in my version the princesses mother was an ogress... which I thought was a very odd twist in the story, where in the Disney film the mother is a queen! I enjoyed watching the movie in class much more than I enjoyed reading the versions. I think that fairy tales are very important during childhood years because although they are not realistic, they give us hope! These movies also expand our imaginations as children and teaches us life skills in a more fun and lively way than if our parents were to teach them to us! I remember tons of Disney movies and fairytales from when I was a child and I think its great we pass them on to the next generation!
Alison Mowry
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In class my group read the classic story of sleeping beauty. Prior to reading our story in class, I didn't realize how many versions of the story there were. Personally, the classic story is my favorite because I was constantly watching it as a child. Compared to the classic story there was the version of Sleeping Beauty in the Wood which seemed to be a lot darker than the original version. The storyline stayed pretty much the same however, the king died and the prince took the King's place while she was hidden from the castle. I don't know if fairytales necessarily play an important role, i think they ultimately just alter our perception of the real world into something that is unrealistic. I do believe that they play a role in a person's childhood, but watching fairytales so much as a child does tend to alter your outlook on how things may turn out when you get older which can be harmful.
Laney McFarland
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I read sleeping beauty in the wood by Charles Perrault, in this version there were 8 fairies. 7 of the fairies had been invited and got the VIP treatment of gold silverware, while the 8th fairy who wasn't invited because nobody knew about her whereabouts didnt get the gold silverware. She was so angry with the royal family she spent the whole night muttering to herself about how she was going to wish a terrible gift upon the princess. In the disney version there is only 3 fairies, and a wicked witch. The wicked witch was angry for not getting invited by the royal family because she was not wanted, I also think it was some what provoked by one of the fairies. I think the importance of fairy tales in some cases is the spark your imagination, in others its to teach you life lesions about how to handle tricky situations. When i was little i loved them in movie form or being read to from a book. I alway wanted to be a princess, and loved the mythical creatures, unicorns dragons, fairies.