Compare And Contrast Briar Rose And The Sleeping Beauty

“The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” by Charles Perrault and “Briar-Rose” by the Grimm Brothers are both slightly distinctive fairy tale versions about a beautiful princess cursed into a deep sleep by an enchantment force and awakened by a heroic prince. Although both versions are distinctive to a certain extent, they both contain the same basic elements of fiction such as character, setting, conflict, and moral. The two versions main character or protagonist is a young princess about the age of fifteen living in a magnificent castle in a fairy tale world where mythical creatures and magic coexist. The major conflict in both versions is that the young princess is cursed by a magical spell that forces her into a deep sleep by an enchantment force,
The ogress is furious about this so she decides to put the princess and her children into a cauldron filled with toads and snake, but fails again as the prince return from his duties and saved his wife and children from being thrown into the cauldron. Ultimately the ogress jumps into the cauldron and dies, leaving the prince consoled with his wife and children. This version of “Sleeping Beauty” is a more indecent violent version whereas in “Briar-Rose” has a traditional “happily ever after” ending, where the prince and princess are married and went on to live contented for the rest of their lives. Considering that the Charles Perrault’s version was excessively savage to certain audiences, the Grimm’s Brothers wanted a version where there weren’t so much violent and is appropriate for all type of audiences. The Grimm’s Brothers kept most of the basic element from Perrault’s version such as characters, setting, conflict, and moral, but instituted the change that the prince and the princess live happily ever after at the