This quote really struck me because it shows the idea of male dominance in the story and also the prince's original perspective of the princess. At the beginning of the story the prince only saw the princess as a way to make his name. He thought that she should be eternally grateful to him because of what he was doing for her. When he thought of her, he thought of her as a sexual object. But as the story goes on and he becomes hopeless and entrapped in the briars, he begins to see her as a friend. Someone that he can talk about his strife with. I found it interesting how each time the story switches to the prince, his thought process changes subtly. The more he hacks through the briars, the more he questions what he was doing and why. When you're in the princess's POV, her story just repeats with different variations. Its very redundant.
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