It leaves off in the attraction phase between the two lovers. Disney’ s Sleeping Beauty neglects to show the attachment side to the relationship, mainly because the attachment phase starts to take place after a long period of time, which occurs when oxytocin and vasopressin have been released. The romance tends to skip over any real conversation and the focus tends to be more on the moment of just being together, this shows that the relationship is still in the attraction phase.
Probing more into the prince’ s actions, he is experiencing eros. The article,“ Philosophy of love” by Alexander Moseley touches on platonic love. Eros is love in the sense of passion and sexual desire. The prince is intensely admiring Aurora’ s beauty( some might find him a creeper). Looking at platonic love or eros, the love specifically is a reflection of the ideal beauty itself. In this case, platonic love does not need to be reciprocated by any means, sense it is an appreciation of the beauty( Moseley 2,3). As we can see in this scene of the movie, Aurora does not reciprocate the platonic love that the prince is experiencing. Although it doesn’ t necessarily have to be with a specific individual, but in this scene the prince loves the element of the true( ideal) beauty of Aurora.
Looking at this in the phenomenological analysis, the in-itself is what the culture says that being in love looks like. In this case the culture that Disney cultivates, in Sleeping Beauty, is meeting someone and without singing more than a few words, you simultaneously fall in love with one another. In this case, the characters do not have to think about how to act after that because the culture has already defined that for them. They of course, are infatuated with each other and see one another with blinders, as they believe their significant other can do no wrong in their eyes. Through the watching of Sleeping Beauty, the audience starts to desire this kind of in-itself that is being displayed. In the article,“ Jean Paul Sartre: Existentialism” by Christian Onof, desire is explained in two ways: being and having. The being is geared toward the self and the having is geared toward possession. In this case the being would be being in love and the having would be having possession of someone to be physiologically attracted to( Onof 12).
Expanding on the previous scene from Sleeping Beauty, when the prince jumps out from the bushes to sing along with Aurora, she is a frightened. She then starts to pull away as he tries to hold her hand. She pulls away a total of four times and starts to walk away from him. She even hides behind a tree. However, each time he continues to grab her hand again and again, eventually she doesn’ t pull away and then they start to dance.
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