Sleeping Beauty: Difference between revisions

In most modern versions, starting with [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|the Grimms']], the second part of the story, in which the princess must cope with the jealous queen, is omitted. Actually, the Grimms included the German version of this part of the story as a separate tale, ending with the king sentencing his own mother to death. Versions preceding [[Charles Perrault]]'s replace the prince with an already married king. In these versions, [[Values Dissonance|he rapes the princess]] while she lies sleeping and she gives birth to twins before waking up (when one of the babies sucks the splinter out of her finger). The cannibalistic queen in this case is the king's wife. In another, even [[Darker and Grittier|darker]] variant, when the princess wakes and realizes what had been done to her, she's so enraged that ''[[I'm a Humanitarian|she]]'' eats the babies. You can read one of these earlier versions [[Sun, Moon, and Talia|here]].

 

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