Sleeping Beauty

Ok so we've all see the movie surely? I remember it anyways, but I'm about to trash this childhood memory for you as well, so here's the plot

When after waiting for many years a king and his queen finally have a child, they organise a celebration. They invite twelve wise women, fairies, as godmothers who bring gifts such as beauty, virtue, riches. A wicked fairy who wasn’t invited, curses the princess saying that on her 15th birthday she’ll prick her finger on a spindle and die. A good fairy turns this curse into a sleep that will last a hundred years. The king forbids spinning in the whole realm, but when the princess turns fifteen, she chances on a woman spinning in a hidden room in the tower. She pricks her finger on a spindle and, as predicted, falls into a deep sleep as does the whole household of the castle. Hedges of briars start growing around the premises which no one can penetrate. After one hundred years have passed, a prince approaches the castle who has heard about the sleeping princess. The briars part, he enters the castle, sees the princess, falls in love with her, kisses her and thus wakes her and the whole royal household. They marry and live happily ever after.

so what the analysis of this story?

The thirteen fairies are seen as representatives of the 13 lunar months the year had in olden times. Women menstruate in a 28-day rhythm corresponding with the old calendar and not the solar one with its twelve months. Freudian psychologists see the curse of the thirteenth fairy as a curse of menstruation.
Of course, nothing can prevent puberty to set in when the time has come. The king’s precautions must be in vain. The flight of winding stairs, the door with the key in the lock, the dancing spindle which fascinates the girl are all seen as symbols for her awakening sexuality. Her falling into a deep sleep shows that she’s afraid of it, that she’s internalised her mother’s warnings. She only awakens when Mr Right appears. When she’s ready, the hedge of briars moves back of its own. It’s no use hastening the process, when the time has come, the problems will solve.
Bruno Bethlehem (The Uses Of Enchantment) interprets the long sleep as a typical phenomenon of adolescence. In a time when so many inner processes occupy the adolescent’s mind, no energy for outward activities is left. The happy ending signals that this period of inertia is transient, an insight which gives hope to adolescents as well as their parents.

 Yep I know fairytales are just sex stories done in a hidden manner...