Everly's journal discusses how children or adults could use fairy tales to interpret situations in a less threatening way, specifically concerning fear-related psychological disorders that can include feelings of anxiety or depression. In addition, Laxdal's paper explores how mentally disabled protagonists within some Grimm stories such as, The Golden Goose, are considered the "ultimate superhero". These protagonists show how they overcome their disability in an able-bodied world. Also, I have found an essay by Shakelton that analyzes a Sleeping Beauty adaptation, The Light Princess, written by George Macdonald. This source has allowed me to understand specific themes within the fairy tale that I can use to connect the idea of depression and the feeling of disconnection from oneself and one's world. Lastly, I have found research that will help me understand the male-rescuer archetype's role while also evaluating different ways I could make the female protagonist in my story, Princess Aurora, the rescuer. This source also analyzes different Sleeping Beauty adaptations that involve female self-liberation.
	I will also be using Disney's Sleeping Beauty, various Grimm fairy tales, Gwen Strauss' Sleeping, and a loose adaptation of the fairy tale The Princess and the Frog called, The Princess and the Fog. This is a children's storybook that teaches how to cope with difficult emotions. This will help me learn how to describe different emotions tied with depression in the form of a story while giving me ideas on how I would like to structure my adaptation. I will also be using Bruno Bettelheim's introduction in his book, The Uses of Enchantment, which explains how and why fairy tales help children explore their emotions and find a deeper meaning in life. This can be done by stimulating their imagination and creating relatable stories. In addition to this, I have found a source that will help me further analyze the Grimm's, The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear, and how this story resembles feelings of helplessness and emotional numbness.
After accumulating these resources, there are still some things I would like to explore further. Specifically, different techniques on modernizing a fairy tale while still keeping concepts of the fairy tale storyline; in this case, Sleeping Beauty. I want to look into adaptations that reflect this or adaptations that modernize the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. In addition to Carolina Rodriguez's, The Deconstruction of Male-Rescuer Archetype, I would like to learn more about how the ideology of needing to be rescued from the female's perspective manifests itself within fairy tales and how this can pose problematic ideologies.

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