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Essay / Theme of love in Perrault's Sleeping Beauty...
In Perrault's story, the queen of the kingdom comes from an ogre background. When the king, son of the queen, goes into battle, he entrusts not only the kingdom but also his wife and two children to his mother. The Queen never truly loves her son's family, as she understands his plan to lie about how the two became lovers. With this knowledge locked away in her head for at least two years and the conditions being ideal, the Queen comes to not only want to kill her son's family, but also to want to eat them. When she learned that she had not eaten them but that she was served meat with a very elegant sauce, she was furious. Perrault shows here how the queen may have been "sober" for several years, or since she became queen, but how quickly she lost sight of the love that was once in her heart. The queen immediately sentenced her son's family and the kitchen assistant who lied to her to death. She is so enraged by what happened to her and has started killing again to satisfy herself, which is not a queen's ideology but her own ideology. Once they are about to be executed, his son, the king, returns and sees what will happen. Perrault said: “No one dared to tell him, when the Ogress, all enraged