A Modern World Fairytale

Abstract

With the wake of feminism and post modernism the mental horizon of people expanded and they started looking at things from a new perspective. With this result, in the contemporary scenario  “Linda Woolverton” took the challenge of presenting one of the most popular fairytales of all times-Sleeping  Beauty with amendments through a psychoanalytic and feministic  approach, giving it a more concrete, stable and factual purpose. The researcher has tried to focus on the old classical fairytale and its two adaptations that represent two different aspects and patterns of characterization.The purpose of the paper is twofold. The first part deals with the classical concept and variation in its adaptation and the second part focuses on the 2014 adaptation, Maleficent, which is more realistic with its psychoanalytic and feministic approach, on the basis of human emotions like love, hatred, sympathy, greed, etc.