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Sleeping Beauty Stereotypes

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Fairy tales are known for having females with extreme beauty or profound evil. A woman’s beauty defines her worth and purity; jealousy and greed controlled her wickedness. When authors placed women in these types of roles within fairy tales, they spread to people's minds. With this, it makes it acceptable to stereotype women in these ways. Stories during an overwhelmingly patriarchal society, it’s not surprising that they have an obvious disdain towards women. Versions of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella affirms this idea of men placing women into the beautiful or evil role in an attempt to denigrate females. In most versions of Sleeping Beauty, the princess has no influence over her life or body; fate controls her life and men violate her body.
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