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Theme : Fairy Tale
Briar Rose
A long time ago there were a King and Queen who said every day,
"Ah, if only we had a child!" but they never had one. But it happened
that once when the Queen was bathing, a frog crept out of the water on to the
land, and said to her, "Your wish shall be fulfilled; before a year has
gone by, you shall have a daughter."
What the frog had said came true,
and the Queen had a little girl who was so pretty that the King could not
contain himself for joy, and ordered a great feast. He invited not only his
kindred, friends and acquaintance, but also the Wise Women, in order that they
might be kind and well-disposed towards the child. There were thirteen of them
in his kingdom, but, as he had only twelve golden plates for them to eat out
of, one of them had to be left at home.
The feast was held with all
manner of splendour and when it came to an end the Wise Women bestowed their
magic gifts upon the baby: one gave virtue, another beauty, a third riches, and
so on with everything in the world that one can wish for.
When eleven of them had made
their promises, suddenly the thirteenth came in. She wished to avenge herself
for not having been invited, and without greeting, or even looking at any one,
she cried with a loud voice, "The King's daughter shall in her fifteenth
year prick herself with a spindle, and fall down dead." And, without
saying a word more, she turned round and left the room.
They were all shocked; but the
twelfth, whose good wish still remained unspoken, came forward, and as she
could not undo the evil sentence, but only soften it, she said, "It shall
not be death, but a deep sleep of a hundred years, into which the princess
shall fall."
The King, who would fain keep his
dear child from the misfortune, gave orders that every spindle in the whole
kingdom should be burnt. Meanwhile the gifts of the Wise Women were plenteously
fulfilled on the young girl, for she was so beautiful, modest, good-natured,
and wise, that everyone who saw her was bound to love her.
It happened that on the very day
when she was fifteen years old, the King and Queen were not at home, and the maiden
was left in the palace quite alone. So she went round into all sorts of places,
looked into rooms and bed-chambers just as she liked, and at last came to an
old tower. She climbed up the narrow winding-staircase, and reached a little
door. A rusty key was in the lock, and when she turned it the door sprang open,
and there in a little room sat an old woman with a spindle, busily spinning her
flax.
"Good day, old dame,"
said the King's daughter; "what are you doing there?" "I am
spinning," said the old woman, and nodded her head. "What sort of
thing is that, that rattles round so merrily?" said the girl, and she took
the spindle and wanted to spin too. But scarcely had she touched the spindle
when the magic decree was fulfilled, and she pricked her finger with it.
And, in the very moment when she felt the prick, she fell down
upon the bed that stood there, and lay in a deep sleep. And this sleep extended
over the whole palace; the King and Queen who had just come home, and had
entered the great hall, began to go to sleep, and the whole of the court with
them. The horses, too, went to sleep in the stable, the dogs in the yard, the
pigeons upon the roof, the flies on the wall; even the fire that was flaming on
the hearth became quiet and slept, the roast meat left off frizzling, and the
cook, who was just going to pull the hair of the scullery boy, because he had
forgotten something, let him go, and went to sleep. And the wind fell, and on
the trees before the castle not a leaf moved again.
But round about the castle there began to grow a hedge of
thorns, which every year became higher, and at last grew close up round the
castle and all over it, so that there was nothing of it to be seen, not even
the flag upon the roof. But the story of the beautiful sleeping
"Briar-rose," for so the princess was named, went about the country,
so that from time to time kings' sons came and tried to get through the thorny
hedge into the castle.
But they found it impossible, for the thorns held fast together,
as if they had hands, and the youths were caught in them, could not get loose
again, and died a miserable death.
After long, long years a King's son came again to that country,
and heard an old man talking about the thorn-hedge, and that a castle was said
to stand behind it in which a wonderfully beautiful princess, named Briar-rose,
had been asleep for a hundred years; and that the King and Queen and the whole
court were asleep likewise. He had heard, too, from his grandfather, that many
kings' sons had already come, and had tried to get through the thorny hedge,
but they had remained sticking fast in it, and had died a pitiful death. Then
the youth said, "I am not afraid, I will go and see the beautiful
Briar-rose." The good old man might dissuade him as he would, he did not
listen to his words.
But by this time the hundred years had just passed, and the day
had come when Briar-rose was to awake again. When the King's son came near to
the thorn-hedge, it was nothing but large and beautiful flowers, which parted
from each other of their own accord, and let him pass unhurt, then they closed
again behind him like a hedge. In the castle-yard he saw the horses and the
spotted hounds lying asleep; on the roof sat the pigeons with their heads under
their wings. And when he entered the house, the flies were asleep upon the
wall, the cook in the kitchen was still holding out his hand to seize the boy,
and the maid was sitting by the black hen which she was going to pluck.
He went on farther, and in the great hall he saw the whole of
the court lying asleep, and up by the throne lay the King and Queen.
Then he went on still farther, and all was so quiet that a
breath could be heard, and at last he came to the tower, and opened the door
into the little room where Briar-rose was sleeping. There she lay, so beautiful
that he could not turn his eyes away; and he stooped down and gave her a kiss.
But as soon as he kissed her, Briar-rose opened her eyes and awoke, and looked
at him quite sweetly.
Then they went down together, and the King awoke, and the Queen,
and the whole court, and looked at each other in great astonishment. And the
horses in the court-yard stood up and shook themselves; the hounds jumped up
and wagged their tails; the pigeons upon the roof pulled out their heads from
under their wings, looked round, and flew into the open country; the flies on
the wall crept again; the fire in the kitchen burned up and flickered and
cooked the meat; the joint began to turn and frizzle again, and the cook gave
the boy such a box on the ear that he screamed, and the maid plucked the fowl
ready for the spit.
And then the marriage of the King's son with Briar-rose was
celebrated with all splendour, and they lived contented to the end of their
days.
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Identify
setting of the story
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of place
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Setting
of time
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2. Identify
the main character in the story
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Main
character
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Characteristic
(appearance and personalities)
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3. Tell
the story, what was happened start from beginning until end of the story?
