Modern

Fairytales
What is the purpose of
fairy tales?

Like all stories, fairy tales are meant to

entertain, but that’s secondary. Unlike today’s
novels, their main purpose is to give a moral in
a way the audience will remember. They exist
to teach a clear lesson.
Modernized
fairy tales
from
Disney Sleeping Beauty The Little Mermaid

Rapunzel

Snow White and the

Pinocchio
Seven Dwarves
Sleeping
Beauty
After the birth of a great lord's daughter Talia,
wise men and astrologers cast the child's
horoscope and predicted that Talia would be
endangered by a splinter of flax. To protect his
daughter, the father commands that no flax
would ever be brought into his house.
Years later, Talia sees an old woman
spinning flax on a spindle. She asks the
woman if she can stretch the flax
herself, but as soon as she begins to
spin, a splinter of flax goes under her
fingernail, and she drops to the ground
Unable to stand the thought of burying
his child, Talia's father puts his daughter
in one of his country estates.
Some time later, a king who is out
hunting in the nearby woods, follows his
falcon into the house. He finds Talia;
overcome by her beauty, he tries
unsuccessfully to wake her, and then
"Crying aloud, he beheld her charms and
felt his blood course hotly through his
veins.
He lifted her in his arms, and carried her to
a bed, where he gathered the first fruits of
love." Afterwards, he leaves the girl on the
bed and returns to his own city. Still deep in
sleep, Talia gives birth to twins (a boy and a
girl).

One day, the girl cannot find her mother's

breast; instead she begins to suck on
Talia's finger and draws the flax splinter out.
Talia awakens immediately. She names her
children "Sun" and "Moon" and lives with
them in the house.
The king returns and finds Talia is
awake – and a mother of twins.
However, he is already married. He calls
out the names of Talia, Sun and Moon in
his sleep, and his wife, the queen, hears
him. She forces the king's secretary to
tell her everything, and then, using a
forged message, has Talia's children
brought to court. She orders the cook to
kill the children and serve them to the
king. But the cook hides them, and
cooks two lambs instead. The queen
taunts the king while he eats.
Then the queen has Talia brought to
court. She commands that a huge fire be
lit in the courtyard, and that Talia be
thrown into the flames. Talia asks to take
off her fine garments first. The queen
agrees. Talia undresses and utters
screams of grief with each piece of
clothing. The king hears Talia's screams.
His wife tells him that Talia would be
burned and that he had unknowingly
eaten his own children. The king
commands that his wife, his secretary,
and the cook be thrown into the fire
instead. The cook explains how he had
saved Sun and Moon. Talia and the king
marry, and the cook is rewarded with the
title of royal chamberlain.
And then the
Prince married
Talia, and lived
happily ever after.
 Modern
Sleeping Beauty
After many childless years, King Stefan and Queen
Leah welcome a daughter, the Princess Aurora. A
holiday is proclaimed to pay homage to the princess.
At her christening, Aurora is betrothed to Prince
Phillip, the son of King Stefan's closest friend King
Hubert, to unite their kingdoms.
Among the guests are the three good
fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather.
Flora and Fauna bless Aurora with
beauty and song, respectively, but
Merryweather's gift is interrupted by the
evil fairy Maleficent, who is angry and
insulted she was uninvited.
As retaliation, Maleficent curses the princess,
proclaiming Aurora will grow in grace and
beauty, but before the sun sets on her sixteenth
birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle
of a spinning wheel and die. The King and
Queen beg the fairies to undo the curse, but
they are not powerful enough; Merryweather
uses her magic to weaken the curse; instead of
dying, Aurora will fall into a deep slumber, only
broken by true love's kiss. King Stefan orders
all spinning wheels throughout the kingdom be
burned.
At the fairies' urging, the King
and Queen reluctantly allow
Aurora to live with the fairies,
hidden in the forest.
Aurora, renamed Briar Rose, grows into a
beautiful young woman. On her sixteenth
birthday, the fairies ask her to gather berries so
they can prepare a surprise party. Aurora
befriends the animals of the forest and sings
them a song, "Once Upon a Dream".
Phillip, now a handsome young man,
follows Aurora's voice and is instantly
struck by her beauty and grace. She is
initially startled, as she is not allowed to talk
to strangers, but she and Phillip fall in love.
She invites him to meet her godmothers at
the cottage that evening.
Meanwhile, Flora and
Merryweather argue over the
color of Aurora's gown, their
magic attracting the attention
of Maleficent's raven who
learns Aurora's location.
Returning home, Aurora is thrilled to tell her guardians
that she has fallen in love. The fairies finally tell Aurora
that she is a princess, already betrothed to a prince, and
she must never see the man again. Heartbroken, Aurora
cries in her room. Phillip tells his father he wishes to
marry a peasant girl, despite his betrothal to a princess
and he is left devastated.
The fairies take Aurora to the
castle to await her birthday
celebrations and be reunited
with her parents. Maleficent
appears and lures Aurora into a
dark tower and tricks her into
touching the spindle of a cursed
spinning wheel.
Aurora pricks her
finger, fulfilling the
curse.
The three fairies place the sleeping
Aurora on a bed in the highest tower
and cast a powerful spell on everyone
in the kingdom, causing them to sleep
until the spell on their princess is
broken. After overhearing a sleepy
conversation between the two kings,
they realize that Phillip is the man
Aurora loves.
They rush to find him, but Maleficent has
abducted him. She shows Phillip the
sleeping Princess Aurora, and says she
will lock him away until he is an old man
on the verge of death. Only then will she
release him to meet his love, who will not
have aged a single day.
The fairies rescue Phillip, arming him with
the magical Sword of Truth and Shield of
Virtue. An enraged Maleficent surrounds
the castle with thorns but fails to stop
Phillip. She confronts him, transforming
into a gigantic dragon. They battle, and
Phillip throws the sword, blessed by the
fairies, directly into Maleficent's heart,
killing her.
Phillip awakens
Aurora with a kiss,
breaking the spell and
waking the kingdom.
The royal couple descends to
the ballroom, where Aurora is
reunited with her parents.

Flora and Merryweather resume

their dispute over Aurora's
gown while the happy couple
dance, living happily ever after.
The Little
Mermaid
Rapunzel
Once, there was a lonely couple, who
wanted a child, live next to a walled
garden belonging to a sorceress.
The wife, experiencing the cravings
associated with the arrival of her
long-awaited pregnancy, notices
some rapunzel, growing in the
garden and longs for it. She
refuses to eat anything else and
gets sick, and the husband begins
to fear for her life.
One night, her husband
breaks into the garden to get
some for her. She makes a
salad out of it and greedily
eats it. It tastes so good that
she longs for more. So her
husband goes to get some
more for her. As he scales the
wall to return home, the
sorceress catches him and
accuses him of theft. He begs
for mercy, and she agrees to
be lenient, and allows him to
take all the rapunzel he wants,
on condition that the baby be
given to her when it's born.
 Desperate, he agrees. When his
wife has a baby girl, the sorceress
takes her to raise as her own and
names her "Rapunzel" after the
plant her mother craved. She
grows up to be the most beautiful
child in the world, with long
golden hair.
When she turns twelve, the
sorceress locks her up inside
a tower in the middle of the
woods, with neither stairs
nor a door, and only one
room and one window. In
order to visit Rapunzel, the
sorceress stands beneath the
tower and calls out:

“Rapunzel!
Rapunzel!
Let down your hair
That I may climb thy golden
stair!”
One day, a prince rides
through the forest and
hears Rapunzel singing
from the tower. Entranced
by her ethereal voice, he
searches for her and
discovers the tower, but is
naturally unable to enter it.
He returns often, listening
to her beautiful singing,
and one day sees the
sorceress visit, and thus
learns how to gain access
to Rapunzel.
When the sorceress leaves, he bids
Rapunzel let her hair down. When she
does so, he climbs up and they fall in
love. He eventually asks her to marry
him, which she agrees to. Together
they plan a means of escape, wherein
he will come each night (thus
avoiding the sorceress who visits her
by day), and bring Rapunzel a piece
of silk, which she will gradually
weave into a ladder.

Before the plan can come to fruition,

however, she foolishly gives him
away.
She innocently
asked the
sorceress why
her dress is
growing tighter
around her waist.
The sorceress
found out that
Rapunzel is
pregnant.
In anger, she cuts off a majority of
Rapunzel's hair and casts her out into
the wilderness to fend for herself. When
the prince calls that night, the sorceress
lets the severed hair down to haul him
up. To his horror, he finds himself
meeting her instead of Rapunzel, who is
nowhere to be found. After she tells him
in a rage that he will never see Rapunzel
again, he leaps or falls from the tower,
landing in a thorn bush. Although the
thorn bush breaks his fall and saves his
life, it scratches his eyes and blinds him.
For years, he wanders through the
wastelands of the country and
eventually comes to the wilderness
where Rapunzel now lives with the
twins to whom she has given birth,
a boy and a girl.

One day, as she sings, he hears her

voice again, and they are reunited.
When they fall into each other's
arms, her tears immediately restore
his sight. And Rapunzel's hair
magically grows back after the
prince touches it. He leads her and
their twins to his kingdom, where
they lived happily ever after.
 Modern
Rapunzel
Long ago, a drop of sunlight fell onto Earth and grew a magical flower capable of
healing illness, decay, and injury. For hundreds of years, the flower is used by
Mother Gothel to retain her youth, until soldiers from a nearby kingdom, Corona,
find the flower and use it to heal their ailing queen. Shortly afterwards, the Queen
gives birth to Princess Rapunzel. While attempting to recover the flower, Gothel
discovers Rapunzel's golden hair contains the flower's healing properties. She tries
to steal Rapunzel’s hair but discovers that cutting her hair destroys its power.
Gothel abducts the baby and raises Rapunzel as her own daughter in an isolated
tower. Once a year, the King and Queen release sky lanterns on Rapunzel's birthday,
hoping for their daughter to see them and return.
On the eve of her 18th birthday,
Rapunzel, who sees the lanterns
each year on her birthday, asks to
leave the tower and discover their
source. Gothel refuses, claiming
that the outside world is a
dangerous place.
Meanwhile, a thief named Flynn Rider steals
Rapunzel's crown from the palace and
inadvertently discovers the tower after
ditching his allies, the Stabbington brothers,
while fleeing from the palace guards. As Flynn
enters the tower, Rapunzel knocks him out
with a frying pan and hides the crown,
unaware of its significance. She convinces a
reluctant Flynn to escort her to see the
lanterns in exchange for the crown's return, as
a way to prove to Gothel that she can take care
of herself in the "dangerous" outside world.
Eager to reclaim the crown, Flynn takes
Rapunzel to the Snuggly Duckling, a pub filled
with menacing thugs, in an effort to discourage
her into returning home, but instead the thugs
are charmed by Rapunzel when she
encourages them to follow their dreams. Royal
soldiers led by one of the royal army's horses,
Maximus, arrive in search of Flynn. Rapunzel
and Flynn escape but are then trapped in a
flooding cave.
Resigned to his fate, Flynn reveals his real
name: Eugene Fitzherbert. Rapunzel
remembers that her hair glows when she
sings, and uses it to provide enough light to
find a way out of the cave. Eugene and
Rapunzel take refuge in a forest where
Gothel, now in league with the
Stabbingtons, gives the crown to Rapunzel
and suggests using it to test Eugene's
faithfulness.
In the morning, Maximus finds the pair
and tries to arrest Flynn, but Rapunzel
arranges a truce in honor of her
birthday. The group reaches the
kingdom and enjoys the festivities,
culminating in an evening cruise as
the lanterns are released. There,
Rapunzel gives Eugene the crown
after fulfilling her dream of seeing the
lanterns in person.
Rapunzel and Eugene realise they have fallen in love and
are about to kiss when Eugene notices the Stabbingtons
on the shore. Eugene leaves Rapunzel to give them the
crown, but they knock him out, tie him to a boat and
attempt to capture Rapunzel, after convincing her that
Eugene has left her. Gothel then stages a rescue,
betraying and incapacitating the brothers, and leaves
with Rapunzel as Eugene and the Stabbingtons are
detained at the palace.
Back at the tower, Rapunzel recognises the symbol of
the kingdom, which she had subconsciously
incorporated into her paintings over the years.
Realising that she is the long-lost princess, she
confronts Gothel. As Eugene is sentenced to hang,
Maximus and the Duckling thugs help him escape.
Maximus then carries him back to Gothel's tower.

Eugene enters by climbing Rapunzel's hair, only to find

Rapunzel chained and gagged.
Gothel fatally stabs Eugene and tries to
force Rapunzel to leave with her, but
Rapunzel agrees to submit forever
willingly if she is allowed to heal Eugene.
Eugene, wanting Rapunzel to be free,
instead slices off her hair, destroying
its magic and causing Gothel's age to
suddenly catch up with her. She trips
and falls out of the window of the
tower, turning to dust even before she
hits the ground.
A heartbroken Rapunzel mourns
for Eugene who dies in her arms.
However, her tear, which still
contains some of the sun's
power, lands on his cheek and
restores his life.
The two return to the kingdom and
Rapunzel reunites with her parents.
Overjoyed, the kingdom breaks out
in celebration, and Eugene is
pardoned for his crimes.

Rapunzel and Eugene eventually

marry.
 Snow White
and the
Seven Dwarves
At the beginning of the story, a queen sits sewing at an open
window during a winter snowfall when she pricks her finger
with her needle, causing three drops of red blood to drip onto
the freshly fallen white snow on the black windowsill. Then,
she says to herself, "How I wish that I had a daughter that had
skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black
as ebony." Sometime later, the queen gives birth to a baby
daughter whom she names Snow White, but the queen dies in
childbirth a short while later.

A year later, Snow White's father, the king, marries again. His
new wife is very beautiful, but she is a vain and wicked
woman who practices witchcraft. The new queen possesses a
magic mirror, which she asks every morning, "Magic mirror
on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" The mirror always
tells the queen that she is the fairest. The queen is always
pleased with that, because the magic mirror never lies.
But as Snow White grows up, she becomes
more beautiful each day and even more
beautiful than her stepmother. When the
queen asks her mirror, it tells her that
Snow White is the fairest.

This gives the queen a great shock. She

becomes envious, and from that moment
on, her heart turns against Snow White,
whom the queen grows to hate
increasingly with time. Eventually, the
angry queen orders a huntsman to take
Snow White into the forest to be killed. As
proof that Snow White is dead, the queen
demands that he returns with her heart,
which she will consume in order to become
as beautiful as Snow White.
The huntsman takes Snow
White into the forest, but after
raising his knife he finds
himself unable to kill her. When
Snow White finds out about her
stepmother's plan, she tearfully
begs, "Spare me this mockery
of justice! I will run away into
the forest and never come
home again!" The huntsman
reluctantly agrees to spare
Snow White and brings the
queen the heart of a wild
animal instead.
After wandering through the forest for
hours, Snow White discovers a tiny
cottage belonging to a group of seven
dwarfs. Since no one is at home, she
eats some of the tiny meals, drinks some
of their wine, and then tests all the beds.
Finally, the last bed is comfortable
enough for her and she falls asleep.
When the dwarfs return home, they
immediately become aware that there is
a burglar in their house, because
everything in their home is in disorder.
Prowling about frantically, they head
upstairs and discover the sleeping Snow
White. She wakes up and explains to
them what happened, and the dwarfs
take pity on her and let her stay with
them in exchange for housekeeping.
They warn her to be careful when
alone at home and to let no one in
while they are working in the
mountains.

Meanwhile, the queen, believing that

Snow White is dead, asks her mirror
once again: "Magic mirror on the
wall, who is the fairest one of all?"
The mirror tells her that Snow White
is still the fairest in the land. The
queen is furious when she learns
that Snow White is still alive, and
decides to kill the girl herself.
She appears at the dwarfs' cottage,
disguised as an old peddler, and offers
Snow White colorful, silky laced bodices
as a present; the queen laces her up so
tightly that Snow White faints. The dwarfs
return just in time, and Snow White
revives when the dwarfs loosen the laces.
Upon hearing from her Magic Mirror that
Snow White still lives, the queen dresses
as a comb seller and convinces Snow
White to take a beautiful comb as a
present; she brushes Snow White's hair
with the poisoned comb. The girl faints
again, but she is again revived by the
dwarfs when they remove the comb from
her hair. The Magic Mirror informs the
queen that her plan has failed again and
Snow White is not dead.
So the queen disguises herself as a
farmer's wife and offers Snow White a
poisoned apple. Snow White is hesitant to
accept it, so the queen cuts the apple in
half, eating the white (harmless) half and
giving the red poisoned half to Snow
White. The girl eagerly takes a bite and
falls down unconscious. This time, the
dwarfs are unable to revive Snow White.
Assuming that she is dead, they place her
in a glass casket.

Three days later, a prince stumbles upon

Snow White lying in her glass coffin
during a hunting trip. After hearing her
story from the seven dwarfs, the prince is
allowed to take Snow White to her proper
resting place. While Snow White is being
transported, one of the prince's servants
trips and loses his balance.
This dislodges the piece of
poisoned apple from Snow
White's throat, reviving her.
The prince is overjoyed, and
declares his love for Snow
White. Snow White agrees to
marry him.

Snow White and the prince

invite everyone to their
wedding party, including Snow
White's stepmother.
The queen, still believing that Snow
White is dead, again asks her magic
mirror who is the fairest in the land.
The mirror says that the prince's
bride is the fairest. Not knowing
that the bride is her stepdaughter,
the queen arrives at the wedding to
investigate. Frozen with rage and
fear, she tries to sow chaos but the
prince recognizes her as a threat.
He orders that she wear a pair of
red-hot iron slippers and dance in
them until she drops dead for the
attempted murder of Snow White.
Modern Snow White
and the Seven
Dwarves
Snow White is a lonely princess living with her
stepmother, a vain Queen. The Queen worries that
Snow White will be more beautiful than her, so she
forces Snow White to work as a scullery maid and
asks her Magic Mirror daily "who is the fairest one of
all". For years the mirror always answers that the
Queen is, pleasing her.
One day, the Magic Mirror informs the Queen that Snow
White is now "the fairest" in the land. The jealous Queen
orders her Huntsman to take Snow White into the forest
and kill her. She further demands that the huntsman
return with Snow White's heart in a jeweled box as proof
of the deed. However, the Huntsman cannot bring himself
to kill Snow White. He tearfully begs for her forgiveness,
revealing the Queen wants her dead and urges her to flee
into the woods and never look back.
Lost and frightened, the princess is befriended by
woodland creatures who lead her to a cottage deep in
the woods. Finding seven small chairs in the cottage's
dining room, Snow White assumes the cottage is the
untidy home of seven orphaned children.
In reality, the cottage belongs to seven adult
dwarfs—named Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy,
Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey—who work in a nearby
mine. Returning home, they are alarmed to find
their cottage clean and suspect that an intruder has
invaded their home.
The dwarfs find Snow White upstairs, asleep
across three of their beds. Snow White awakes
to find the dwarfs at her bedside and
introduces herself, and all of the dwarfs
eventually welcome her into their home after
she offers to clean and cook for them. Snow
White keeps house for the dwarfs while they
mine for jewels during the day, and at night
they all sing, play music and dance.
Using a potion to disguise herself as an old hag, the
Queen creates a poisoned apple that will put
whoever eats it into the "Sleeping Death", a curse
she learns can only be broken by "love's first kiss",
but is certain Snow White will be buried alive. While
the Queen goes to the cottage while the dwarfs are
away, the animals are wary of her and rush off to
find the dwarfs. Faking a potential heart attack, the
Queen tricks Snow White into bringing her into the
cottage to rest. The Queen fools Snow White into
biting into the poisoned apple under the pretense
that it is a magic apple that grants wishes.
The dwarfs return with the animals as the Queen
leaves the cottage and give chase, trapping her on a
cliff. She tries to roll a boulder over them, but before
she can do so, lightning strikes the cliff, causing her
to fall to her death.
The dwarfs return to their cottage and
find Snow White seemingly dead, being
kept in a deathlike slumber by the
poison. Unwilling to bury her out of
sight in the ground, they instead place
her in a glass coffin trimmed with gold
in a clearing in the forest. Together with
the woodland creatures, they keep
watch over her.
A year later, a prince who had previously met and
fallen in love with Snow White learns of her eternal
sleep and visits her coffin. Saddened by her apparent
death, he kisses her, which breaks the spell and
awakens her.
The dwarfs and animals
all rejoice as the Prince
takes Snow White to his
castle.
 The
Adventures
Of
Pinocchio
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