Yesterday, I wrote a series of questions for characters in Grimm's Fairy Tales. Today, I'm doing it again with Briar Rose/ Sleeping Beauty.
For the Queen and King: Dear Queen, if a talking frog comes up to you and tells you that you will have a child in a year, what cause do you have to believe that frog? Why are you not surprised by the premonition-filled frog? Why are you not at all surprised that a frog cornered you in the bathroom and started talking? Is this normal frog behavior?
Dear King, is there a reason that you only invested in 12 golden plates for 13 old wise women? If you're so overjoyed about your daughter's birth that you're inviting PRACTICALLY EVERYONE, then surely you can invest in a few more plates? Especially if it could ensure your child's well-being, since this may well be the only child you have? Also, after the curse, I understand that you want to burn all dangers to your child; that's probably a natural parent thing. But it COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF YOU HAD INVESTED IN MORE PLATES.
To the Wise Women: How does one bestow virtue, beauty, riches, and other important life goals? Is it a perk of being an old, wise lady? Is this what I have to look forward to when I get older?
To the Thirteenth Wise Lady: I understand that you're mad that you didn't get invited to the party. I'd get mad too, especially with an excuse so flimsy as "we didn't have enough gold plates." But is it really logical to say "die, child, die?" Killing people does not solve your problems.
To the Prince: You're going to trust a random local for your next quest? REALLY? "Oh, this wall of hedges hasn't been penetrated in close to 100 years, and it's killed everyone who's tried so far? TIME TO GO FOR A QUEST!!!" Also, I understand that Briar Rose is pretty, and I assume that the spell had no effect on aging on anyone in the castle. But did the spell affect the amount of dirt and dust that would get caked up? If it didn't, why would you kiss someone who is covered in dust and apparently dead? Are characters in German folklore just really into necrophilia?
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