The Arabian Nights: Saving Lives through Stories Hurriya Hassan Topic 2‚ Paper 1 Dr. R. Amatulli Global Literature I‚ Winter Session 12th January‚ 2015 Storytelling is a great teaching tool that has been used since the beginning of time. Oral tradition has been constantly used in many cultures and society in order to tell a story that consists of a moral that helps an individual learn about certain life lessons. These stories are passed down to them so they can be retold to their future
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King Shahzaman goes to the camp to visit with the Visier‚ BUT‚ unknown to his wife‚ the Queen‚ he returns to his palace in the middle of the night. Shahzaman finds his Queen in bed with the cook‚ and becomes so enraged that he kills them both with his sword. He says nothing of this to anyone‚ and leaves with the Visier to visit his brother‚ Shahrayar. One day‚ while Shahrayar is out hunting‚ Shahzaman stays in the palace feeling very depressed about his dead wife. He looks out at the garden and
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Luis Vazquez English The plot of Arabian nights conveys the theme/ideal that story telling is a vital part of society. Shahrazad’s captivating stories to King Shahrayar becomes the sole purpose/focus of her life; each tale literally saves her life every night. Each night she concludes the tale from the previous night and begins another fantastical and magical tale‚ though as the tale reaches its climax Shahrazad is stricken by sleep and suspends storytelling ‚ leaving the tale at a cliffhanger
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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS The story starts with the description of two brothers‚ one is the King Shahryar‚ of Banu Sasan in the islands of India and other is King Shah Zaman of Samarkand in Barbarian land. They were full of grief and anger at the treason of their wives. The King Shahryar swore himself a binding oath that whatever wife he married he would abate her maidenhead at night and slay her next morning for he felt that there was no chaste woman on the face of the earth. As this was done for
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1001 nights Chaucer used the frame of that collection of stories‚ to make all of the stories inside that frame more complicated‚ more ambiguous and more interesting. Our interest in this collection of story is in the frame on the way stories get told. But there are two things for all purposes in this course. The first one is the question what kind of a story does this frame require? The frame itself is in some ways more limiting than that in Chaucer’s since it only has one narrator and a very limited
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Do you know what it’s like to have a dream? Do you know what it’s like to achieve your dream? Do you know what it’s like to fall short of your dream or have your dream crushed? Well‚ then you would relate to the theme of The Alchemist. The theme of The Alchemist is that everyone should pursue their dreams. In the story The Alchemist‚ Santiago starts off as a shepherd not aware of his dream or purpose in life then gets told by a wise old king to search for his treasure‚ goes on an adventure of his
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Tha Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights constitute‚ in Marina Warner’s words‚ "a polyvocal anthology of world myths‚ fables and fairytales". The antecedents of these Arab-Islamic texts (also known as The Thousand and One Nightsand the Arabian Nights Entertainments) are Qur’anic‚ Biblical‚ Indian‚ Persian‚ Mesopotamian‚ Greek‚ Turkish and Egyptian. In them‚ oral and written traditions‚ poetry and prose‚ demotic folk tales and courtly high culture mutate and interpenetrate. In their long lifetime the Nights have
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ARABIAN NIGHTS SYNOPSIS In Baghdad there was a Sultan named Shahryar who had gone mad because he accidentally killed his wife who was unfaithful to him for he had an affair with the Sultan’s brother‚ Schahzenan. He gone mad because he thought that every women wanted to kill him and for that he requests to bring a harem girl to marry and be killed the next day. A clever woman named Scheherazade decide to marry the Sultan in order to prevent his madness. With the help of a storyteller she tells
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The magic of the Arabian Nights by Wendy Doniger The original‚ authentic‚ real Ur-text of the Arabian Nights (aka Alf Layla wa-Layla‚ or the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights‚ or just the Nights) is a mythical beast. There are far more than a thousand and one nights‚ for the thirty-four-and-a-half stories in the fourteenth or fifteenth century “core” body of the Nights were soon supplemented by other tales in Arabic and Persian‚ from the culture of medieval Baghdad and Cairo‚ and then in Hindi
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Giving up on God Faith is defined as complete trust in someone or something‚ having complete and total trust in someone that they will catch you when you fall or when you make a mistake is a very hard thing to do‚ yet thousands even millions of people have faith in God and worship him everyday. Elie Wiesel was a very strong believer himself. He prayed everyday and wanted to further study him religion and master it. Only after he was sent to the concentration camps to witness and experience all of
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