Everybody knows the story of Sleeping Beauty. Countless cultures have adapted the tale to fit its customs and traditions. The tale has suffered transformations and shifts of characters, audience and even genre. It has been adapted to film (how can we forget the classical Disney movie of the same name?), dance (as in the famous ballet) and an adult oriented movie with the same name was also released only a year ago.
Yet what these stories initially aimed at children never told us was what happened to Aurora, Cinderella, Snow White...and all the other characters of tales and folktales popularized through the oral tradition after the stories ended. "And they lived happily ever after" seems to be the repetitive ending all these tales have in common, however, we might infer this is not so. Aurora was only in the middle of her teenage years when her tale ends (versions suggest she was 15, 16 or 18 when she was put to sleep - although at the time it was written, 16 year olds were considered adults) therefore it's a bit difficult to think that she lived happily ever after with Phillip. Didn't they have fights in their marriage? Did they have children? How many? Were they loved by their kingdom?
I plan to answer these questions as clearly as I can to show you that Aurora, as well as all the other characters from famous tales had normal lives with ups and downs just like we do now.
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