Analysis Of The One Thousand And One Nights - 1592 Words

The Power of Underestimation 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. In the frame tale, The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, his Vizier’s Daughter, King Shahrayar’s misconception of women made him fall prey to Shahrazad’s con. While Shahrayar was gone hunting, his brother, Shahzaman witnessed his wife and concubines cheating on him with black slaves dressed as women. Shahzaman told Shahrayar about the affairs, after much cohesion, and even helped him to catch them in the act. This made Shahrayar very angry which made him come to the decision to kill his wife, concubines, and the slaves that they were having such illicit affairs with. The fact that King Shahrayar was so powerful and supposed to have betterShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of A Thousand And One Nights 999 Words   |  4 PagesA Thousand and One Nights is a tale about the over-sexed east which is favored by the sexually repressed west when applied to and analyzed under the lens of Orientalism. 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