Topic > Characteristics of Sleeping Beauty - 1850

The authors want to establish a moral to help teach young and old about the world around us, whether through the vision of good, for example in the Grimm or Perrault versions, or through the point of view of the evil person as in Maleficent. But on some occasions, stories can teach us two lessons at once. In Sleeping Beauty, the most important lesson teaches that love is the most powerful force in the world. Both the Grimm and Perrault versions state that the princess will have to fall asleep for a hundred years before she can wake up. Perrault's version however goes a little deeper and says that to be awakened after a hundred years, only the kiss of a prince would wake her up. In Maleficent, Maleficent only says that Arora, the princess version of Sleeping Beauty, will sleep until true love's kiss wakes her up and in the movie it was Maleficent who broke her own curse because she truly loved Arora like a dear. Friend. The second lesson is not so common to teach, but it teaches that a person should be careful when offending someone in life, regardless of whether it was intentional or not. In each version there is someone who is offended when in reality they shouldn't have been and, consequently, the princess, in the case of the stories, was the right one