I remember that in my childhood Disney book of Sleeping Beauty, Briar Rose had a dress that changed color; I thought that was pretty cool.
I think it was this one, from the late '50s:
Posted on 10/18/2018 5:23:59 PM PDT by FrankLea
How about Huma, or that socialist/communist from NY? The thing is, I don’t give a rat’s a$$ about any of these wenchs, so I don’t care to come up with any more examples, but I am sure you can.
I think it was ABT, too.
Believe it or not, but if you give the Heimlich to a person without consent it is considered battery under most nursing home and hospital guidelines. If a person has a DNR you are instructed to not help them if they are choking.
Read the original stories; heck, even read the cleaned up ones for the kiddos, and/or see the Bunin Puppets's versions. :-)
You're confusing Sleeping Beauty with SNOW WHITE.
just heard about this.
implied consent. That’s what they call it in First Aid classes.
I took a class in German, around 1970. Our textbook included quite a few old German fairy tales.
I was struck by the fact that they all had unhappy endings. Probably a sign of hard times.
BTW, I failed the class.
Many of the Grimm's Fairy and Household Tales are like Aesop's story, in that they are meant to TEACH morality/ethics. A very good example of that is THE FISERMAN'S WIFE. Yes, that ends badly, but for an extremely GOOD reason!
OTOH...most of the fairy tales end happily for the "good"/nice people; even though there are gruesome bits in most of them.
Almost every nation and culture has a "CINDERELLA" type story; some countries have several different versions of it.
The ancient Greek & Roman myth of EROS & PSYCHE is a combination of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, which predates every other fairy tale, EVERYWHERE, of that kind.
Yes because it is so erotic and appealing for a woman to ask permission
what is the feminist take on Snow White shacking up with 7 male dwarves ?
Yes, I'm a "purist" and even as a small child, I was upset at what Disney did to me beloved fairy tales.
No denying it...Balanchine was a GENIUS and his ballets are all amazing!
OTOH...there's nothing to sniff at/complain about the ABT's staging and choreography. And their '80s SLEEPING BEAUTY was beautifully done.
I agree completely :-)
I was a Classics major although I eventually changed it to Geography.
“Cupid and Psyche” was one of my favorite Greek myths. I had never thought about it but it had some elements of both Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. In fact so much that I suspect they were derived from it.
Just about everyone posting here is talking about Sleeping Beauty, but the princess actually mentioned in the excerpt is Snow White.
Good; we tend to agree on quite a lot of things! :-)
No one’s going to get kissed in the future if you have to ask.
“May I kiss you?”
“Why don’t we just go for coffee instead.”
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