The Sleeping Beauty Tale: Character Analysis

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“Listen well, all of you! The Princess shall, indeed, grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her. But... before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and DIE.” We all know where this line is from; The 1959 Sleeping Beauty movie that we all watched at least once when we were kids. The Sleeping Beauty tale is basically about King Stephan’s new born girl, Aurora, who got cursed by the villainous fairy Maleficent that causes Aurora to fall into a death like sleep on her sixteenth birthday. However, in the 2014 movie “Maleficent”, the evil fairy Maleficent that we have all grown to hate doesn’t turn out to be a villain, but a hero instead. Although Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent are technically the same story but from different perspectives, they differ in Maleficent’s backstory and her justification for cursing Princess Aurora, the actual curse, Maleficent’s behavior while Aurora was growing up and the story ending from how Aurora woke up from the death like sleep to the kingdom’s fate. In “Sleeping Beauty”, the reason Maleficent cursed Aurora is because she didn’t get a proper invite to her christening and she felt offended by that. She didn’t have a proper justification; Maleficent was just a purely hateful, evil creature in the story. While in “Maleficent”, Maleficent had a good reasoning that makes her look a little less evil. When Maleficent was younger she lived in an enchanted kingdom in the forest