One Night Only

Gender and Power in The Arabian Nights Works Cited Not Included Contemplating the relationship between gender and power, one undoubtedly notices that tradition regards men as the holders of official office and power. Historically, men have also always been the leaders of their families, and turned to in times of trouble or need. Making generalizations is normally a weak approach to any task; in this case however, it is necessary to do so in order to illustrate how drastically opposite the situations

being untrustworthy, due to their approach of going around the rules. Although this may be true, their limited possibilities push them to use their cleverness to look for alternatives that will help them reach their goals. The stories of The Arabian Nights demonstrate that when women are in control of a situation they must be trusted, as long as they act upon good will. Heroes, kings and presidents, for so long men are the protagonist of the stories. Across the world and through the centuries, women

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1974 film, Arabian Nights, uses enframing in order to produce a rich dialogue around a particular theme seen in The Arabian Nights stories. His film uses two kinds of enframing devices, parallel stories and dictated stories. Parallel stories are instances where the camera moves between two different characters and their stories. Dictated stories are instances where the characters themselves read or relate a story. Both of these enframing methods work to draw comparisons between

The book Chimera by John Barth is not one but three books all taking places in different places and times in Greek mythology. The book is split into three part the Dunyazadiad, the Perseid, and the Bellerophoniad. Just as in the Aeneid the main characters names are in each of the section titles: Dunyazade, Perseus, and Bellerophon. Their stories are literally just simple retellings except told from other points of view to give another point of view as if we are seeing it from the worlds point of

Both the ‘The Odyssey’ 1(1616) and ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ 2 (2010) feature male protagonists who traverse the seas, and the concepts and themes of men seafaring is common throughout most canonical texts. For example, the allusion of Odysseus’ difficult journey is made when a minor male character in Apuleius’ ‘The Golden Ass’ (1998) describes his seafaring adventures as being ‘positively Ulyssian’3 (Kenney: 29) (‘Ulyssian’ thus being a reference the Roman naming of Odysseus). Furthermore, both

Theater Review: The Arabian Nights On Sunday, March 19, 2016, I had the pleasure of attending Cal State University San Bernardino’s The Arabian Nights musical theater production written by Mary Zimmerman and adapted from the classical story of “The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night”. Run time was a total of 2 hours and 35 minutes, with special ticket pricing for students was 6 dollars, general being 15 dollars and special 12 dollars. As the book suggests the original story consists of 1001

Lady of United State, she can follow Obama to nearly all of the business trip or conference trip. She can talk to the First Lady in that country or the resident of that city. She can really help her husband and improve the image of the country. Not only United State, many president from other countries would like to bring their wife with him and help him out,

Montesquieu support the gender politics in Europe at that age, but their presentation of the harem differs. One presents the harem as an ideal place with which the Western woman should follow for her safety, while the other presents it in an exaggerated way, as an oppressive and degrading place, not to let his Western woman avoid or revolt against it, but to rationalize and mitigate the European one. Through his Oriental oppressed harem, Montesquieu tries to convince his Western women with the kinder

Arabian Nights, also known as One Thousand and One Nights, is a mystical group of stories centralized in the areas we call West Asia and South Asia. It is said that they were compiled during the Islamic Golden Age, which could be anywhere between the 3rd century and 13th century. One Thousand and One Nights is broken into several different parts, some translated into English, some not. The key theme of these stories is the power of storytelling. As Madeleine L’Engle, a well-renowned fiction author

In One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, the chapter “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp”, created by Antoine Galland, tells of a young man’s luck filled journey from the poverty of the colonized into the riches of the colonizer. Aladdin, an idle street boy is tricked by a magician into fetching a lamp for him from a cave. To help him, Aladdin receives a ring which contains a genie who helps him escape after the magician traps Aladdin. After realizing that the lamp contains a powerful genie, Aladdin uses