The Not-So-Chivalrous Prince Marina Warner traces the origins of the Sleeping Beauty story to a tale which appeared in an Authurian romance, "Perceforest". ... Instead of a Prince, our hero is a King, who comes across the Sleeping Beauty (Talia) in the woods. ... The Prince does not even kiss the sleeping Princess, she just happens to wake up as he kneels beside her. ... When the old king dies, the Prince becomes King, and makes his marriage public. ... The behaviour of the Prince/King in Perrault's version seems less explicable than Basile's, even if more moral. ...

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In The Frog Prince such social aspects manage to show themselves throughout the tale. ... In a great rage she picked up the frog and threw him at the wall and as the frog fell he transformed into a prince with beautiful kind eyes. ... With the Kings consent, the Frog Prince and the Princess became bride and groom. There are various aspects of early-modern European, and perhaps more specifically German, culture evident in the story of the Frog Prince. ... Along the Frog Prince there is the story of The Ungrateful Son. ...

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In the case of Snow-White, she is oppressed by her evil stepmother and in the end is saved by a handsome prince. If Prince Charming had not rescued her, she would not have woken or survived. ... Fairytales suggest that marriage to a handsome prince is the most desirable reward for a woman to win. ... Rapunzel relies completely on a prince, for her to escape her imprisonment; Cinderella has to use the mythic powers of her fairy godmother to achieve her goal and Sleeping Beauty is rendered helpless until her prince charming awakens her from her slumber. ... An evil woman has a hold on a beau...

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Discuss the purpose of fairy tales for a contemporary audience. Do they hold as much value for present audiences as in the past? It is impossible to discuss the purpose of fairy tales for a contemporary audience and even more so to discuss their relative value for present audiences in comparison ...

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