People say that fairy tale love is not realistic. However, people are eager to find love like in a fairy tale. Because people compare this to the love in reality, love in fairy tales seems more romantic. Love comes in many different forms. "The sleeping beauty in the wood" by Charles Perrault is about pure and romantic love between a princess and prince. By contrast, the song "Love the way you lie" by Eminem and Rihanna show a more realistic, violent depiction of love. By comparing "The sleeping beauty in the wood" and "Love the way you lie", people can see that the perfect love story in fairy tale isn't realistic and that experience love in many different ways. 

The love in fairy tale is like destiny. People know the Princess and Prince are always together in the end of the story. the Princess will fall in love with the Prince at some point in the future. According to the story "She shall only fall into a profound sleep, which shall last a hundred years, at the expiration of which a king's son shall come and awake her"(Charles 399). This is the beginning of the story how their love relationship starts and also foreshadows end of story that there is a king's son to wake her up, because it illustrates that the prince is the right one for the Princess. The Princess just needs to wait for her prince come to wake her up and take her to a happy life. In reality, love is unpredictable. "Love the way you lie" illustrated that human desire distracts people from their relationship. According to the lyrics "But when it's bad, it's awful. I feel so ashamed, I snapped, who's that dude. I don't even know his name, I laid hands on her"(Eminem). It also indicate that sometimes people are distracted by mistress, even they are at a relationship. So there is no right one, there is only love based on understanding, trust, and compromise in a relationship. Every girl can be a princess to wait for her prince to come. But this is not fairy story, there are no certain princes will stop by. People need to experience each one showed in their life and to recognize who is the right one for them. 

In fairy story, it does not take characters long to fall in love. Even when the Prince and Princess meet at first time, it seems like they have been together forever. According to the story "He approached with trembling admiration, and fell down before her upon his knees. And know, as the enchantment was at an end, the princess awakened, and looking on him eyes more tender than the first view might seem to admit of: 'Is it you, my Prince?' said she to him. 'You have waited a long while.'...He assured her that he loved her better that he did himself"(Charles 402). It represents the pure love between prince and princess. They have perfect love and they are meant to be together. By comparing to the lyrics "You ever love somebody so much you can barely breathe, Now you're getting fucking sick, of looking at 'em" (Love the way you lie). lyrics also gives an idea that how people approach to level of love. Unlike the love in fairy story, there is already someone who is just right one and predictable. People just need to wait for their right one no matter how many years and they can always have. In reality, people have a period of time to fall in love with someone and don't know is she/he right one, which is unpredictable. In "Love the way you lie", it indicate a process to start a new relationship, which gets more complicated than people expect. People need to meet others, to know their interests, and to be attracted to others. And also according to lyrics of "Love the way you lie", "Got that warm fuzzy feeling, yeah them chills, used to get 'em" (Eminem). Many people find this feeling like the love in fairy story. It is great to attract people to want have it more. By contrast, this lyrics show that realistic love is more complicated than in fairy tales. This "fuzzy feeling" can't represent love in the reality. It is a part of process to fall in love. It also can end just after it begins. Unlike fairy tales, realistic love takes steps.

There are differences from what people expected when they first begin in a relationship. According to lyrics "I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like, And right now there's a steel knife, in my windpipe I can't breathe, but I still fight, while I can fight As long as the wrong feels right, it's like I'm in flight High off of love drunk from my hate, It's like I'm huffing paint and I love it the more that I suffer I suffocate, and right before I'm about to drown, She resuscitates me"(Eminem). Eminem used a man's first person point of view, which audiences can relate to this song. From the lyrics, people can easily tell the struggles in this relationship. Eminem said: "there's a steel knife, in my windpipe I can't breathe, but I still fight, while I can fight as long as the wrong feels right"(Eminem), he refers to when something wrong is wrong in a relationship and there are unspeakable feelings stuck in people's chests. However, people often still enjoy relationship in spite of suffering. Because people sometimes can't control their feelings to get away from this feeling. It illustrates that people are like moths darting into a flame which is very attractive to moths, even they know flame is dangerous and it will hurt themselves. But they are hurt while happy. Furthermore, lyrics of "Love the way you lie" portrayed that a couple has been together a long time. They've been through "Fuzzy feeling", untrusted, heart broken. And they still have such this and such that problem, which this couple feel suffering in this relationship. They are happy while they are hurt. There is different love portrayed in fairy tales. Prince and Princess have no such problems. According to the story "and after supper, without losing any time, the lord almoner married them in the chapel of the castle, and the chief lady of honor drew the curtains"(Charles 402), prince and princess are married within half day. They have no reason but already to know each other. The half day they spend together feels like years, they have no doubts about their love. Even they just get met and married, they still have perfect love and perfect marriage. 

In fairy tales, love is not hard to manage. Because it is peaceful. According to the story "and that he always had some excuse ready for so doing, though he had lain out three or four nights together, she began to suspect that he was married, for he lived with the Princess above two whole years, and had by her to children, the eldest of which, who was a daughter, was named morning, and the youngest, who was a son, they called day, because he was a great deal handsomer and more beautiful than his sister"(Charles 403), Prince lied to his father and his mother to earn more time with his wife. He doesn't want to tell his mother, because of he feared her. He says excuses to keep his wife safe. Their two kids named "morning day", which represents their love. Because the morning day is always full of passion, hope, and daylight. Love in fairy tale is passion, pure, and tranquil. In the reality people should manage their love. However, It is easy to fall in love, it's hard to keep love last forever. Because it's not in the fairy tale. According to "Now you're getting fucking sick, of looking at 'em You swore you've never hit 'em, never do nothing to hurt 'em, Now you're in each others face, Spewing venom, and these words, when you spit 'em You push, pull each other's hair, scratch, claw, bit 'em,Throw 'em down, pin 'em"(Eminem), it refers people are lost control on their emotion when they are in relationship. Because they love each other so much and they want their lovers to do what they expect their lovers to do. It also illustrate that People have compelling controlling feels when they have strong love to their lovers. They are uncomfortable when their lover did something that they think it is inappropriate. The lyrics of "Love the way you lie" also say that each person is individual, has different thoughts, different value worth, and different outlook. There are conflicts when people don't compromise. Love can be violent and not healthy. By comparing to "The Sleeping Beauty in the wood" and "Love the way you lie", People can see the love as peaceful is rarely happen in reality and people love as violent should give their lover more trust and understanding. 

By contrast, the song "Love the way you lie" shows that Love in fairy tale is impossible to achieve in reality. But fairy tales are still beloved by children and also adults. What is love? People have different answers with difference experience. And also the song refers that Love is not easy as people read in the "Sleeping Beauty in the wood". Love is hard. Love is about how two individual person get along with no complains. Love is not only sweet, but also bitter, hot, and salty. Love is drugs, everyone has addiction to use it. People are passion, lost, sublime, and appreciate because of love.  

