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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Deconstructing Fairytales

I was going over my notes when I happened to pass by one of the exercises our professor asked us to do in our Fiction Writing Workshop.He instructed us to choose one of our favorite fairytales and rewrite it according to our own version.It was a total fun and this is what I've come up with:
Belle went to the forest to look for her father. On her way through the heart of the forest, she encountered Beast. Extremely frightened by Beast's looks, she fell asleep. Beast brought her to his castle. Several years passed and Belle was still asleep. Her hair grew longer and longer.
Beast went to the forest and saw an elf. He confided about Belle's condition and the elf told him that he should find the golden apple in the heart of Troy in order to save Belle from sleeping for the rest of her life. Beast ordered his soldiers to look for the golden apple. They found it and stole it from Paris. Paris learned about it and set a battle between him and Beast.
Paris' men attacked Beast's castle. While leading his soldiers, Paris was caught by a long, shiny thing that looks like a golden rope hanging in the Beast's castle. He was smitten by it and became curious on what is in the uppermost part of the castle. So he made his way and climbed using the golden 'rope'. When he reached the top, he realized that the rope was the hair of the beautiful lady who was sleeping in the tower. He was surprised to see Beast beside her, putting the golden apple in the lady's lips. He was amazed how the beautiful lady woke up as the golden apple touched her lips.
When Beauty opened her eyes, again, she was frightened by Beast. Paris went beside her casting Beast away from her sight. Immediately, Paris and Belle fell in love with each other. Deeply hurt, Beast chose to go down the castle using Belle's very long hair. Paris decided to cut Belle's hair. They didn't want to imagine what happened to Beast. And they lived happily ever after, at the uppermost part of that castle.

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