Analysis of Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty is one of the most popular fairy tales heard and recited around the world. Some people have tried their best to make this fairy tale disappear from a historic collection of fairy tales, as the heroine was deemed “the most passive and repellent” (Tatar, pg. 117, 2017). However, different versions and film adaptations of Sleeping Beauty has been created for centuries. Hence, this version of the fairy tale that will be analysed throughout the essay has been written by Charles Perrault in 1697, which was titled “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” (French: La Bell au bois dormant). Therefore, this essay will analyze this fairy tale through the following three approaches: the gendered approach, a comparative
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For instance, the princess gong into her passive state after being pricked by a spindle shows the latency period of most girls, as stated by Bettelheim (Tatar (ed.), pg. 117, 2017). This period of human development shows that most girls are starting to learn about their own bodies and relate themselves with the same gender but supresses their own sexual desires and urges. Nevertheless, there is a line from the fairy tale, where the princess woke up from her deep sleep, and the first person she saw was the prince, for which she proceeded to ask the prince, “Is it you, my prince?...You’ve kept me waiting for such a long time.”. In fact, a journal article from Journal of Women’s History that talked about the “Sleeping Beauty” condition, stated that women need to be aroused (i.e. “need to be coaxed into orgasm”) and usually arouse themselves in their sleep by thinking about their heterosexual development, and their mental and sexual health being, which would aid women into developing their vision of heterosexuality (Lewis, pg. 98, 2005). Next, in Sleeping Beauty, when the prince saw the princess sleeping in a tower, he thought the princess looked beautiful and pretty while she is sleeping (hence the title, “sleeping beauty”), and instantly feel in love with the princess. Plus, I know that most of us, humans, tend to like something (i.e. find pleasure) when we stare at something for quite a long time, for which there was term coined for this feeling, by Dr. Sigmund Freud, called scopophilia. When children stare into something for a long time, they are curious about something, as they try to understand their surrounding and what is happening around them. However, when the probing gaze continues throughout adulthood, it proceeds into various ways, mostly for “erotic pleasure”, or active looking. (Tatar, pg. 118, 2017). Finally, according to Carl Jung’s The Principle Archetype’s,
For instance, the princess gong into her passive state after being pricked by a spindle shows the latency period of most girls, as stated by Bettelheim (Tatar (ed.), pg. 117, 2017). This period of human development shows that most girls are starting to learn about their own bodies and relate themselves with the same gender but supresses their own sexual desires and urges. Nevertheless, there is a line from the fairy tale, where the princess woke up from her deep sleep, and the first person she saw was the prince, for which she proceeded to ask the prince, “Is it you, my prince?...You’ve kept me waiting for such a long time.”. In fact, a journal article from Journal of Women’s History that talked about the “Sleeping Beauty” condition, stated that women need to be aroused (i.e. “need to be coaxed into orgasm”) and usually arouse themselves in their sleep by thinking about their heterosexual development, and their mental and sexual health being, which would aid women into developing their vision of heterosexuality (Lewis, pg. 98, 2005). Next, in Sleeping Beauty, when the prince saw the princess sleeping in a tower, he thought the princess looked beautiful and pretty while she is sleeping (hence the title, “sleeping beauty”), and instantly feel in love with the princess. Plus, I know that most of us, humans, tend to like something (i.e. find pleasure) when we stare at something for quite a long time, for which there was term coined for this feeling, by Dr. Sigmund Freud, called scopophilia. When children stare into something for a long time, they are curious about something, as they try to understand their surrounding and what is happening around them. However, when the probing gaze continues throughout adulthood, it proceeds into various ways, mostly for “erotic pleasure”, or active looking. (Tatar, pg. 118, 2017). Finally, according to Carl Jung’s The Principle Archetype’s,