How does Jane Yolen make use of the fairy tale genre to explore the tragedy of
... Through her novel, Briar Rose, Jane Yolen allows the fairy tale motif as its introduction; it begins with an orientation, next a series of events, then the challenge of the death bed promise leading to a resolution. To explore how Yolen uses the fairy tale motif, we must also examine why she does so. ... Plagues, murder, molestation and rape have all been the hidden subjects of the fairy tales we all know. ... Yolen uses great care in applying the fairy tale genre to write about an evil she has genuine trouble facing. In Briar Rose, Yolen uses the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, to allow her readers to relate to the Holocaust. ... Both of these stories are linked to the fairy tale.