Well, dear reader, he carries her to the bed and rapes her. He finds the princess, and calls to her, but as she is unconscious, she does not wake up. When no one answers, he climbs up a ladder through a window. "Sleeping Beauty": In Giambattista Basile's tale (which is the actual origin of the Sleeping Beauty story), a king happens to walk by Sleeping Beauty's castle and knock on the door. Luckily, after saving Geppetto from the terrible dogfish (you might know it better as the gigantic, angry whale from the film), Pinocchio shapes up and eventually becomes a real boy (and, you know, all that stuff about boys getting turned into donkeys and then sold to evil circuses did end up making it into the movie, surprisingly). He encounters a fox and a cat, who steal his money and unsuccessfully try to hang him. Pinocchio sells his school books for a ticket to the Great Marionette Theatre. Geppetto is released, and insists that Pinocchio goes to school. Pinocchio returns home, where he kills a talking cricket (sorry, Jiminy) who warns him of the dangers of hedonistic pleasures and obedience. He is found by the police, who imprison Geppetto because they believe Pinocchio was abused. In the book, he runs away as soon as he learns to walk. "Pinocchio": Disney's "Pinocchio" came from Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian classic "The Adventures of Pinocchio." You might think Pinocchio was mischievous in the movie, but he is far more so in the book. She throws herself into the sea, and turns into sea foam (though it should be mentioned that she then becomes a 'daughter of the air,' entering a kind of purgatory where she has to do good deeds until she MAYBE earns a soul, which will take about 300 years to happen). She is told that if she KILLS the prince, then she can simply turn back into a mermaid and doesn't have to die. At first, it seems like the plan is working, but then the prince ends up marrying another, a woman he THINKS is the person who saved him (the mermaid can't exactly tell him the truth, since she can't talk). The Disney movie leaves out that the penalty the mermaid pays for having legs: every single step she takes will feel like she is walking on sharp shards of glass. Also, while the prince remains a main motivator, the mermaid in the story is also motivated because humans have eternal souls, and mermaids don't. However, the penalty in the movie is only that Ariel will turn back into a mermaid if she fails. ![]() ![]() The deal is the same: The mermaid can only remain a human if she finds true love's kiss and the prince falls in love with and marries her.
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