The Thousand And One Nights

Authors use many different aspects to create a story. Sometimes authors decide to copy other authors in narratives when they find something they like. In the two short stories “The Interlopers” by Saki, and “The Trapper Trapped” an African folktale, both stories have many similar and opposite elements. In both stories, the characters, themes, and tones of these two texts are in many ways similar as well as different.

The lessons that can be learn from this story is to seek knowledge. The story of 1,001 nights is the amount of time Scheherazade had to charm her way into the king heart saving her life and countless of young women. Scheherazade is more than great storyteller she was a heroine for volunteering herself, after seeing countless women being beheaded she mastered a plan to stop the bloodshed. Realizing if she spends enough time with the king he would eventually fall in love with her, therefore the killing would stop. Scheherazade wasn’t just beautiful she was smart acquiring all the knowledge by studying history books, poetry, art and philosophy. And her planed work, he did fall in love with her and spared her life and made her queen.

Stories like Sindbad, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp and other popular stories are very common today in the western culture. Animated movies were also made for the entertainment of kids on these popular stories. One might wonder that where these stories originated and how it came down and made place in the western culture. Although these stories are very popular in both the western culture and the eastern culture but the original literary work is not so popular in common people. Theses stories are some of the stories from the Arabic work "The Thousand and One Nights." The work of "The Thousand and One Nights" represents basically a female that is a strong and clever idol and

In any great work of literature, each action and thought should contribute to the underlying meaning of the entire work. No action should exist for its own sake; it must instead advance the plot and reinforce the symbolism of both the characters’ actions as well as the truth of what the composer or author is trying to convey. This is especially true of acts of violence; great literature must carefully articulate the violence into a logical meaning. Most importantly, violence and acts of extreme passion work best when communicating a character’s inner-struggles as they relate to the motive and effect of each scene and action.

When reading literature we often attempt to use particular threads of thought or lenses of critique to gain entry into the implied historic or legendary nature of literature. To accurately process a tale in the light in which it is presented, we have to consider the text from multiple viewpoints. We must take into consideration intentional and affective fallacies and the socioeconomic circumstances of the presenter/author/narrator. We also have to consider how our personal experience creates bias by placing the elements of the story into the web of relationships that we use to interpret the external world. There also is the need to factor in other external pressures, from societal norms, cultural ideals, and psychological themes, and how

The Other is configured in the two writers’ works as victims of power play, their unjust mistreatment subsequently exposing underlying social inequalities. Through adopting the Gothic medium characteristic of Romanticism, the texts induce within the reader emotions of terror and pity towards the marginalised, leaving a profound effect which impactfully conveys the intended social criticism.

With the liberty of literature in mind, it can be seen that these two works have commonalities and both reveal something about humanity. Through scrupulous reading, these two works reveal

This essay will explore the function of the narrative which helps the readers to perceive the meaning of the narrative. It will do so in terms of the point of view, narrative voice as well as the structure of the narrative. Furthermore, the setting of the story will be another focus which exploits the generic convention which reflects the social anxiety behind the story at the time. I

Each event in one's life whether important, meaningless, joyful or sickening has an impact on that person's character. Harrowing & tragic events occur often as it was for Edgar Allen Poe which left a vast impact on his character. This author's stories focus on his wretched life and obstacles placed in the forms of stories. His unfortunate events turned into eerie, emblematic tales such as “The Raven”, “The Black Cat”, “The cask of amontillado” & more which all have twisted plot lines such as horror, sadness, revenge etc.

One thousand and one nights, one thousand and one moral stories. The story of The Thousand and One Nights is a unique tale that teaches simple morals throughout the many stories within the main story. This tale is about a clever women that saves herself, as well as the women in her kingdom, from being put to death by the king. She does this by marring the king and telling him bedtime stories every night that lead into the next day. She would purposely not finish the story, to leave him interested in the ending which eventually saves her life, and the women in her kingdom, day after day. Not only does the main story have a lesson to be learned, but the mini-stories also have simple morals to be learned. The Tale of

1001 nights has a very complex structure. Shahrazad is telling the story of the “Fisherman and the Demon” to King Shahrayar and her little sister, Dinazad. At the same time the fisherman tells the demon “The Tale of King Yunan and Sage Duban”. In that story King Yunan tells his vizier ”The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot”, in return the vizier tells King Yunan “The tale of the King’s Son and She-Ghoul”. This amount of layering effect of the stories makes King Shahrayar more interested and keeps Shahrazad and other girls alive.

Tales from 1001 Nights is a group of tales rediscovered and originally translated in the 1700s. This copy is a translation by Malcolm Lyons from the most original texts available. I am familiar with the tales through pop culture. They have been adapted and changed to suit modern tastes, such as in Disney’s Aladdin. I thought that a book of stories would be a pleasure to read and an insight into what the original authors had thought to be good qualities, as stories try to embody.

In the poems “The Wanderer” and “The Dream of the Rood,” anonymous authors give way to the idea that an Almighty God will solve every problem a person has by doing two things: 1) drawing upon the memories of a warrior who has lost everything near and dear to him due to war, and 2) entering the dream of a man who has been exiled and isolated. Each piece takes its reader through the trials and tribulations that one may not relate to in this era, yet the reader is still there alongside the character wanting them to find peace with their world and themselves. Initially, it is believed that the characters will overcome their hardships and achieve the happiness they seek. However, as the reader delves deeper into the character’s story, there is an overwhelming sense of incompleteness. What actually happens at the end of each piece is not written in stone - telling us the story is not whole - nor has a conclusion been reached. The intrapersonal thoughts being shared with the reader reveal the obstacles that keep an overall wholeness from occurring.

Literature past and present is often a reflection of desire and intimacy, one's most inner thoughts feelings. A writers thoughts spilling onto the page, a cleanse of sorts. While other times it may be a commentary on society or a satire to highlight the numerous ills within a community of culture and so in many ways nothing has to remain unwritten, nothing can remain untouched by an authors hand, and yet even with seemingly all reaching grasp an author has when producing literature, there are however things that simply cannot be said the every looming unsayable that dictates that which must be left untouched, a paradox. But the question is not only what the unsayable is in context of time place, gender, and cultural influence, but what the accumulative role of the unsayable is within literature; this then leads to a discussion as to its role as a literary device.

On my 7th birthday, my least favorite uncle gave me a book titled Alibaba and the Forty Thieves. I was surprised because he is my least favorite uncle for a reason, he doesn’t just surprise you with a gift for no reason at all. Little did I know, he just succeeded in getting me to do exactly what I said I wasn’t going to do all summer long, READ ANYTHING! He knows how much I love the Arabian night’s stories and he used this knowledge to get me to change my initial decision of not reading any book during the summer. So failure to recognize the strength in others makes us blind to our own weaknesses. In the One Thousand and One Nights text, some of its characters experience changes due to the fact that they failed to recognize the strength and abilities or capabilities of other opposing characters.