During incidents of bullying students who watch the bullying happen but do nothing are also considered the bullied. When people don’t choose a side to support they are considered an enemy of both groups. These are related by passivity and similarly sleeping beauties role during her story was that she had none. Sleeping beauty is a passive character in her own story that has to wait for a person with a more active role to save them, this can be shown from generations of retelling where men have the women in a story in need of help.

Sleeping beauty has a standard story of a girl being born, a fairy not invited to the girls christening and then the girl getting a curse put on them. This curse usually has the girl put to death by pricking her finger on a spindle but another fairy comes to save her by instead putting her to sleep. When it is time for the curse to happen when the girl is usually around 15 she pricks her finger and goes to sleep. Waiting for a prince to come and wake her up. Some versions also include how the prince or king has an evil queen that will try to kill sleeping beauty and her kids. This is of course after the prince or king saves her first. Then after some foolery sleeping beauty and her kids aren’t killed or eaten and are just saved.

“The passivity of these heroines is magnified by the fact that their stories jump from twenty percent in the original Grimm collection to as much as seventy-five percent in many children’s books.(stone, pg 43-44).” This quote from the article “Things Walt Disney Never Told Us” tells us how sleeping beauty who already was a passive character had it increased (her passivity) when it goes over to american version. This is important because it shows that sleeping beauty has a heroine who is a passive character already becoming more passive due to countless retellings that have to do with making women doing less in their own story. Sleeping beauty has many versions where she is shown as passive. “In brief, the popularized heroines of the Grimms and Disney are not only pas- sive and pretty, but also unusually patient, obedient, industrious, and quiet. A woman who failed to be any of these could not become a heroine (pg 44).” This quote from the article further supports that the most heroines are passive and includes how sleeping beauty is of a heroine who has not done much but sleep. 

In the video Sleeping Beauty by Claude cloutier it is a parody of sleeping beauty asleep as many things are being done to wake her up. However after all tries the only thing that was actually able to wake her up was an alarm clock. Throughout the video sleeping beauty is just as her name implies… sleeping. There was no action she had done at all except breathe and everything that went on around her or to her she had no reaction. Throughout years of retelling for sleeping beauty the one constant is the passivity for this character having done nothing throughout the story. This reinforces the stereotype that without a man there can’t be a story that will have meaning. There is a scene in the video where prince charming is called as if it’s an emergency and he is needed for help, once he arrives it is shown as a big moment. There is a pause as if it would show how a man is needed to help resolve a story. The passivity in sleeping beauty relates to how it was made so she was so a man can come help.

“Feminists have targeted Sleeping Beauty as the most passive and repellent fairy-tale heroine of all, and many have done their best to make the story go away(Tatar, pg 1).” This opening from Tatars review speaks on how sleeping beauty is known for its passivity and how feminists are trying to get rid of this stereotype. Then it is mentioned after that no matter how many times it is put down the version of briar rose pops up somewhere else. The reason this article was written was mostly to shine light on the passivity that sleeping beauty had and how men thought it as a way to see for seductiveness. The passivity that sleeping beauty shows sets a bad name for women almost saying “we need a man.” This article is for shutting down the briar rose version of sleeping beauties passivity and instead spreading a more active role for sleeping beauty. This shows how sleeping beauty plays a role in showing passivity and attracting mens attention as an “invitation” that they need help. 

In conclusion Sleeping Beauty has made a character who is passive so that a man can come help and as well reinforces the stereotype of women in needing a man.Sleeping Beauty throughout many versions goes to sleep and is only there for a male protagonist to save or seem as if there is a need for them. The video and articles make it so that it shows how a man was given more action rather than the female whos the whole story is about. The passivity that this character shows is being taken down by many feminist in order to subdue the stereotype that woman need a man and cant do anything (sleepig beauty not doing anything) without men.

• Yumpu.com. “Things Walt Disney Never Told Us Author(s): Kay Stone … – Rohan.” Yumpu.com, www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/8423359/things-walt-disney-never-told-us-authors-kay-stone-rohan. 

• Tatar, Maria. “Show and Tell Sleeping Beauty as Verbal Icon and Seductive Story.” Shibboleth Authentication Request, web-a-ebscohost-com.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1. 
• Canada, National Film Board of. “Sleeping Betty.” Vimeo, 28 Sept. 2020, vimeo.com/39056960.