Submitted by madnotes on May 13, 2008

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Briar Rose Themes

Every little girl has once dreamt about being a princess in a fairy tale. Of having a prince come and swoop her away to a kingdom far far away and live happily ever after. Every girl has been instructed to understand that those princesses are synonymous with happiness, for they are virtuous and beautiful. Many times however, the women in these fairy tales were once poor, mistreated, unhappy and a charming knight in shinning armor comes to rescue them and turns them into a happy princess. In Anne Sexton’s “Briar Rose”, the idea of a traditional fairy tale woman is reinvented. In “Briar Rose” Sexton rewrites the story of Sleeping Beauty, as a modern 20th...

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