The Tale Of Sleeping Beauty: The Story Of Sleeping Beauty

The story about Sleeping Beauty was addressed repeatedly by storytellers from different countries of the world. The image of the ever-young virgin in a lethargic dream who is waiting for her lover was so attractive that it constantly wandered in literature in different guises. Suffice it to recall "Snow White" and "Sleeping Beauty". The plot of these tales is international in characters, and the tales themselves are deeply national. Why is the story of the sleeping princess so attractive to different countries, the death of which turns into a magic dream? In each of the fairy tales the beauty awakens from the power of love. And this is the dream that people embody in folk traditions. I decided to consider the works of Alexander Pushkin "The

Then in the stepmothers in both tales chose the person who will take the princess to the wood. But, it should be noted that in the "Snow White" huntsman opens the princess, that her stepmother ordered him to kill her. And in Pushkin’s story Chernyavka simply left the princess alone in the forest. Poor girl wanders for a while until finally finds a house. Here we face the main question: why did Pushkin, reinterpreting the work of the Brothers Grimm, replace gnomes with heroes (bogatyrs)? First of all, of course, because he wrote specifically for the Russian audience and therefore did not want to use elements of someone else 's folklore, especially since the Dwarfes themselves were not too popular and understandable for russian readers. In addition, the dwarf is a small man with a long gray beard and has traditionally been in Russia one of the images of the evil

8.The marriage of saviors on Princesses. There are couple motifs in those tales: the stepdaughter is expelled by the stepmother from the house, finds shelter in the forest, her stepmother wants to kill her, the heroine is rescued by forest friends, and then the prince enlivens beauty from a sleep. The Sleep has a great symbolic meaning in the tales. What is this unusual sleep? Under the influence of a certain curse (as a rule, imposed with the help of some magical object), the princess falls into a kind of lethargic sleep, but physically, she remains alive, but its consciousness is turned off and the heroine stays conditions until the evil spells are destroyed (usually by the prince). Sleep is the Spiritual rebirth. Such a state of fairy-tale characters can symbolize the degeneration of their souls, a kind of spiritual perfection, something similar to the degeneration of the caterpillar into a butterfly. Which means plunging into such a dream, the heroine seems to die for her past life, all the terrible events that have happened to her, and after awakening she passes on to a higher