Briar Rose

"She dreams, as she has often dreamt, of abandonment and betrayal, of lost hope, of the self gone astray from the body, the body forsaking the unlikely self...her longing for integrity is, in her spellbound innocence, all she knows of rage and lust"

I think this passage represents Briar Rose and the idea of an isolated princess inside of a castle waiting for her prince. This story is far from the typical fairy tale; this story is much more sexual and blatant about the characters' sexual desires. The qualities of knowing rage and lust were never mentioned in the original Sleeping Beauty and the fact that these characteristics are given to Briar Rose makes this story very distinct. I also think that she drams of abandonment and betrayal because of all the past failures of men to extract her from the castle. I think this passage shows that even though she has been deprived of her integrity, she longs for better and constantly awaits for a man who is up to the task of saving her.