The novel contains all the elements of the classic Sleeping Beauty: the castle, thorns, princess, and a tale of death and awakening from eternal sleep. ... Briar Rose is a novel with a very dark theme. ... A quote that depicts the dark theme of the novel is: ""Five thousand corpses?" ...
There is no real answer, but over time there have come to be certain accepted symbols for major themes, many of which we see in "Briar Rose." ... It is through this awakening of our soul; in discovering how to relate to it, transform it, heal it, listen to its guidance, to retrieve its dreams, that bring about the marriage between Sleeping Beauty and the Prince. ...
Once Upon a Time, fairy tales weren't written for children... In spite of their name, the popular fairy tales usually have very little to do with fairies. We took the name from the French "contes des fee", and the French literary fairy tales of the 17th century do feature far more fairies t...
The prince doesn't tell his family about meeting the princess and awakening her, but keeps it a secret for two years, even though he has two kids with her, until his father dies. ... These later films don't contain the morals the early one's did, like Bambi, which Banks says is "a story about love between mother and child, with possibly an early Green theme tossed in" rather than a story about "a bimbo in a bikini - Barbie with fins." ...
