It’s so obvious, it’s nearly ridiculous to write an artikel about it, but Aurora is the Princess of the maand and it wouldn’t be right to exclude her, even if this will be a very brief article. I won’t even bother to make a pick this time around.

The bloem which naturally symbolized Aurora the best is the rose. There are other flowers in the movie, most notable when the fairies jinx the arrows to protect Phillip, but the rose is connected to Aurora in so many ways: Her name during her stay with the Fairies is Briar Rose (based on the German version of the Fairy Tale, which is called “Dornröschen” (little thorny rose)), her lips “shame the red, red rose”, she even holds a red rose in her hand while she is asleep. It’s a symbolism which works really well, since the rose in the movie is not a natural rose, but a cultivated one (in fact this rose didn’t even exist back then, but who cares, it’s a Fairy Tale). And Aurora herself isn’t a natural beauty either; she is so beautiful because the fairies spelled her this way. It’s somewhat funny that Flora considers turning her into a flower, thought she doesn’t specify which kind of flower.
The rose used in the movie is a red rose, which is very fitting, because it stands for “true love”. I’m slightly annoyed that nowadays Belle is meer often connected with the red rose, while Aurora is left with the roze ones. But at least, the roze ones work, too. Light roze stands for desire, passion, joy of life, youth, energy, roze itself (I’m not sure if that is roze of light pink) stands for grace, which fits Aurora perfectly. Nevertheless, I’m slightly peeved that they stal her bloem from her.

And, as always, the achtergrond (only one this time around).