![]() ![]() Rice makes the power play explicit by using Beauty to tell a tale of sexual dominance and submission. Implicit in oral and literary versions of the tale is a paradigm of female passivity and submission. The first directly addresses the connotations that Sleeping Beauty brings to the minds of Rice's readers, and posits that these connotations are keys to understanding how and why Rice makes use of this particular tale. I submit two possible answers to those questions. So why did Rice choose to use Sleeping Beauty? What connotations does this tale evoke for Rice's readers? And what comments is Rice making in her use of the tale to construct her novels? ![]() ![]() She could instead have followed the pattern of her other work, playing off traditional material and motifs to create her own story. Anne Rice's tale does not rely heavily on the tale's familiar plot-she could easily have written these books without using the Sleeping Beauty framework. Since then the trilogy has been a "classic" of erotica, and has accumulated a sizable cult following. ![]() Her 1983 The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty was followed by Beauty's Punishment in 1984, and Beauty's Release in 1985. Roquelaure, published the first of a series of erotic novels about Sleeping Beauty. In 1983, Anne Rice, under the pseudonym A. ![]()
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