Picture Analysis

Figure 8 found in Folk and Fairy Tales is an illustration by Michael Foreman. He drew this to represent Sleeping Beauty and more specifically I believe it represents Italo Calvion's tale The Neapolitan Soldier. The Neapolitan Soldier describes the breaking of the spell to have taken place by 3 soldiers going through the woods killing giants and finally one lucky solider makes it to Sleeping Beauty's side and the curse was cured. The illustration is a solider peering through tall blueish purple weeds containing thorns and holding up his sword ready for something to come and attack. This showed that he was fearful of what was on the other side, but knew he must see and most likely kill whatever it was that was on the other side of the weeds.



This is not the exact same picture as the one found in Folk and Fairy Tales (figure 8), but it is by the same illustrator and portrays almost the same feeling as t hat of found in the book.