Welcome to Beauty Sleep!
When I was thinking about what to do for my final project, I had a few ideas, but nothing particularly caught my fancy. Then, through my aimless and endless wanderings of the internet, an idea began to form in my mind. I kept finding things (quite by chance) which evoked the theme and motifs of the Sleeping Beauty tale, throughout almost ever genre imaginable. If I was simply stumbling over these things, I assumed that the complete "data set" of Sleeping Beauty media must be quite large. And so,
I began to wonder:
"Where else are these motifs found?"
"Why are they found here?"
"Where did it begin?"
"Where will it go next?"
This has been the starting point of this website. In it, I try to collect some of this data and
compare it, while always asking "why does this exist?"
I attempt to show the connections and relationships within and between various medium:
Films
Modern novels
Original fairy tales and folk stories
Classical mythology
Superstitions and alchemy
Also, I have looked into how the story of Sleeping Beauty has shaped the world of:
Ballet
Commercials
Philosophy
Relationships
Current Events
Entertainment
While this website is my final project for HNRS 4000: Beyond “Happily Ever After”: Adaptations & Retellings
of “Sleeping Beauty," I hope it is interesting to a wider audience. While incomplete as of October, please, click the
links at the top or pick from the drop-down menus to keep reading! Thank you for stopping by.
I began to wonder:
"Where else are these motifs found?"
"Why are they found here?"
"Where did it begin?"
"Where will it go next?"
This has been the starting point of this website. In it, I try to collect some of this data and
compare it, while always asking "why does this exist?"
I attempt to show the connections and relationships within and between various medium:
Films
Modern novels
Original fairy tales and folk stories
Classical mythology
Superstitions and alchemy
Also, I have looked into how the story of Sleeping Beauty has shaped the world of:
Ballet
Commercials
Philosophy
Relationships
Current Events
Entertainment
While this website is my final project for HNRS 4000: Beyond “Happily Ever After”: Adaptations & Retellings
of “Sleeping Beauty," I hope it is interesting to a wider audience. While incomplete as of October, please, click the
links at the top or pick from the drop-down menus to keep reading! Thank you for stopping by.