A Delicate Rose

Sleeping Beauty was released by the Walt Disney Company in 1959 (IMBD).  It is a story of a young princess who was cursed by Maleficent on her birthday that when she would turn 18 she would prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die.  Merryweather, a good fairy, changes it so that she will only be in a deep sleep.  In fear, her parents send Aurora away to live with three fairies in the woods until her 18th birthday.  On her 18th birthday, she goes out into the woods and meets a young man whom she falls in love with.  When she returns to her cottage the three fairies, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, surprise her with a birthday surprise!  She is to return home and she find out she is betrothed to marry another man!  However, Aurora is not very happy about it for she was to meet the young man she fell in love with the next day.  She returns home devastated.  When suddenly she hears a voice calling to her.  She follows it and it leads her to a spinning wheel where she pricks her finger and falls into a deep sleep.  Flora, Fauna and Merryweather find Aurora and cast a spell on the entire kingdom so that they will sleep until Aurora is awakened by true love's kiss.  However, this true love is actually Prince Phillip, the man from the forest and her betrothed!  He was captured by Maleficent and rescued by the faries.  He valiantly fights and kills Maleficent, climbs to the top of the tower where Aurora is asleep and awakens her with true love's kiss.  The kingdom awakens and they all live happily ever after!

The featured Princess this week is Aurora!

Pros:
- She wants too marry for love:  She want's to marry Prince Phillip before she even knows she is a prince.  All she wants is true love and she is content with that.

Cons:
-  Naïve: She falls in love with a stranger in the forest whom she has only met once!  I'm sensing a theme her Disney...
- 18 minutes:  Aurora only appears in 18 minutes of her entire film.  The rest of the time she is unconscious.  Prince Phillip is the true hero of this story.  Why didn't they name the movie after him?

If you ask me, Aurora seems pretty irrelevant to her own movie.
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