Briar Rose

"She dreams, as she has often dreamt, of abandonment and betrayal, of lost hope, of the self gone astray from the body forsaking the unlikely self."

I feel like this quote could easily sum up Sleeping Beauty's long slumber. Everything has abandoned her: her parents, her beliefs, her aspirations, and even herself. She is alone in her dreams and cannot move forward. Her future has been shattered. She is now dependent on a man to save her, as she cannot save herself in this instance.