Contrasting the main character on Sleeping Beauty's short story written by Charles Perrault and film by Walt Disney

This study focuses on contrasting the main character description in the Sleeping Beauty short story by Charles Perrault in 1697 and Sleeping Beauty film by Walt Disney which is directed by Les Clark, Eric Larson, and Wolfgang Reitherman under supervision of Clyde Geronimi, released on 29 January 1959. Sleeping Beauty is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and a handsome prince. Sleeping Beauty tells about Princess who was cursed by the witch and she could only awakened by Prince charming. The method of this study is descriptive qualitative in analyzing the short story and film. The objective of this study is to find out the differences of the main character description in the Sleeping Beauty short story and Sleeping Beauty film. The writer collects the data which are suitable with the statement of problems. The collected data analyzed using new criticism. The result shows that the description of the main character in the short story is beautiful, smart, and brave. The description of the main character in film is beautiful, smart, obedient, and dreamer. So the difference is in the short story, Princess is brave, while in film, Princess is obedient and dreamer.