1001 Nights Comparison
“The Fisherman and the Jinnee” and “Aladdin” are two well known stories with many similar attributes. Both stories are within another folk tale known as “1001 nights”, a story told by a woman named Scheherazade. The reason for this story telling is because a man known as King Shahyrar had a hatred for women because of his ex wife betraying him. He would marry woman and then kill them within the next day. Scheherazade told these stories to distract him and so she told them for a 1001 nights. These are two of her stories that I will be comparing.
Aladdin is about a poor “street rat” that is also known as a “diamond in the rough”; the big problem is he doesn’t know that and neither does anybody else. He is the only person that is allowed to enter a temple in which he will find a steal a magic lamp. This magic lamp contains a genie (a mystical being that can grant its master three wishes with only a few restrictions) and that genie helps him escape this temple as it starts to collapse. He then uses this genie to help him win over a
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girl he has had his eye on; the problem is that the girl's father is a vizier and she is a princess and he wants the lamp. He gets the lamp and then causes chaos but Aladdin tricks him into turning himself into an all powerful genie. The vizier is sucked into a lamp and then sent off to someplace very far away where nobody will find him. The Fisherman and the Jinni is another story from 1001 nights in which it contains three stories. The first story that is the base of all the stories is about a fisherman who goes fishing every day to feed his family. One day he finds a lamp and out comes a Jinni. This Jinni is a nasty scary Jinni that does not wish to grant wishes but to kill it’s finder. The fisherman tricks the Jinni back into the lamp and then proceeds to tell the Jinni the next story. The next story is about a man known as King Yunan who hires a doctor known as Doctor Duban. Doctor Duban is supposed to cure King Yunan’s Leprosy. The king is later convinced by a jealous vizier that Duban is trying to kill him; King Yunan then begins to tell the next story. The next story is about a man who is known as King Sinbad who ends up cutting his falcon’s wings off because the falcon is keeping him from drinking something from a tree. He then finds out the stuff coming from a tree was actually poison and the falcon had saved his life; now he feels guilt for killing his bird. Then going back to the story of King Yunan, King Yunan decides to kill Duban the Doctor. Duban tricks the King into thinking a book he is giving him is magical; the book is actually poisoned and kills the King. Then it returns to the story of “The Fisherman and the Jinni” where the fisherman then casts the lamp back out into the sea. Some of the similarities of these two stories is that both stories contain a mystical being known as a Genie (Jinni) and that they both have Islamic traits.
In both stories the word Allah is used a few times; the word “Allah” is known as the Islamic word for God. Both stories include a government known as a Monarchy (king or queen). Betrayal is a nothing well known element in both stories; such as the vizier in Aladdin and Duban the Doctor in “The Fisherman and the Jinni” Another thing stated in both stories is that both the fisherman and Aladdin are poor and have to scavenge for their food. Whether it be the fisherman scavenging the sea or Aladdin scavenging the marketplace, they are both poor. A big difference is that Aladdin falls in love with a princess, and as far as we know the fisherman does not. King Yunan also betrays somebody who had helped him, Aladdin does not, he actually ends up setting the Genie
free. “The Fisherman and the Jinnee” and “Aladdin” are two well known stories with many similar attributes. Now that I have analyzed both stories and given the difference I can now say that these are both great stories. Differences or not I would read both of these stories again and again. They both have attention grabbing attributes that make most people fall in love with them in different ways and in different forms in which they are presented. Some of the similar attributes were betrayal, the Genie (Jinni), and that they both were poor. Some of the big differences is that Aladdin fell in love with a princess and that King Yunan betrayed his friend and Aladdin did not. I recommend both stories, differences or not, they are definitely in my personal top 10.
In one, a specimen-creating brute robs a pelican child’s life and her guardian trying to bring her back to life. In the other, a prince learns the value of his frog-turned-princess and sets out on a quest to find her. Joy Williams’s Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child and Alexander Afanasev’s The Frog Princess are both critical facets of the fairy tale genre. While initially it may seem that Williams preserved no elements from Afanasev’s tale, upon a closer glance, it is evident that the two tales’ similarities outnumber their differences. By incorporating a generous portion of the original story into his, Williams’s version brings forth an innovative arrangement of classic and new. As a result, William’s tale introduces features to the tale that mirror everyday life lessons while simultaneously maintaining qualities that are reflective of the definitional aspects of the fairy tale genre.
Ibn Fadlan and al-Andalusi both travelled much of the same land. During their travels, they wrote down their experiences with other cultures. Despite the fact that their journeys were two centuries apart, they had many similarities as well as differences in their style of writing, interests, and religious interactions. The most prominent similarity is their relationship with Islam; both of them tried to convert the people they met to their religion and their religious customs. They also share similarities in what they choose to write down about a culture. However, Ibn Fadlan was far more interested in the rituals and customs of other cultures, whereas al-Andalusi chose to primarily focus on food, animals, and the resources of other civilizations. They also have distinct differences in how they interact with others and the style of their writing. Ibn Fadlan is far more active in his writing because he describes his judgments and writes more about himself. Conversely, al-Andalusi is more passive, and writes less about himself or his opinions.
works of literature have tremendous amounts of similarity especially in the characters. Each character is usually unique and symbolizes the quality of a person in the real world. But in both stories, each character was alike, they represented honor, loyalty, chivalry, strength and wisdom. Each character is faced with a difficult decision as well as a journey in which they have to determine how to save their own lives. Both these pieces of literatures are exquisite and extremely interesting in their own ways.
Fairy tale is a story that features folkloric chapters and enchantments, often involving a far-fetching sequence of events. Fairy tales have been around for thousands of years, whether it comes from Grimm’s Fairy Tales which is what most people consider the “classic” or “traditional” fairy tales to Disney movies, the idea of the fairy tale fills our society with lessons and examples of how we should behave and live; fairy tales teach the same things in different ways, or teach different things with the same tale. A couple of these tales are “Beauty and the Beast”, by Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont and “The Pig King”, by Giovanni Francesco Straparola. They are both tales about falling in love with someone despite their appearance. The similarities and differences between “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Pig King” is captivating while still depicting a similar tale. They are similar in the way they find love and their love story but they also share a similar behavior pattern in the way the girls behave towards the prince. However, the two tales do display a difference in the attitudes of the princes and their actions towards their love
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similarities that are inevitably beyond mere coincidence. One could surmise that both of these stories might have a basis in common historical occurrence. However, despite the fact that both of these works discuss a common topic, the portrayal of this event is quite different. Like identical twins raised in different cultures, the expressions of these works are products of their environment.
In Cinderella, the absence of parents teaches Cinderella that they will not always be there. She must learn to help herself and become independent. Whereas in Donkeyskin, a Kings misguided beliefs force his daughter to run from him, despite his presence. Although the King portrays his love for his deceased wife and daughter in the wrong way his daughter is able to forgive in the end. Although their styles differ, parenting becomes the overriding theme in both fairytales. Parents are usually the most important figures in a young child lives. That’s why children can so easily relate to
You can see from the tales themselves though, that the amount of similarities is what brings them together, and represents the way that the tale of Cinderella itself has traveled, and evolved, orally through generations, all over the world.
The popular Disney film Aladdin follows the story of “street-urchin” and orphan Aladdin and his pet monkey Abu. In the story, Aladdin falls in love with princess Jasmine. However, she is not allowed to marry anyone other than a prince. Meanwhile, Aladdin is swept away to become a part of a ploy by villain Jafar to search for and claim a mysterious lamp that is said to grant wishes. The movie is full of false representations of Arabia and Arabians. Seen by children, Aladdin perfectly exemplifies the idea that many racial stereotypes in the media easily go unnoticed. While these young boys and girls are excited by the story, they are blind to treacherous social constructions that are indoctrinating them.
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In both Hans Christian Andersons “The Little Mermaid,” and Disney’s version of the story, the main character— a young and beautiful mermaid— waits anxiously for her fifteenth birthday to venture from her father’s underwater castle to the world above the water. As the story carries on the mermaids priorities change; her modest and selfless nature is revealed towards the end in Andersen’s version. However, Disney’s version encompasses a rather shallow ending and plot throughout. The theme found in comparing the two versions reveal that Andersen’s substance trumps Disney’s entertainment factor in fairy tales.
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 continuously imaginative and creative. It is an anonymous work which is widely known in the Arab world. It is an Arabic collection of a thousand tales, which is derived from the Persian version, telling of a King who was in the habit of killing his wives after the first night, and who was led to abandon this practise by the cleverness of the Wezir's daughter, who nightly told him a tale which she left unfinished at dawn, so that his curiosity led him to spare her till the tale should be completed. Many people have written about these stories, that where they originated, what time period was it originated, how they have been changed, and also literary criticism of the work.
Fairytales and folktales have been told around the campfire, in the living room, the class room, and before bedtime for centuries. First told orally, the “… stories had to have remarkable features in order to remain memorable (Nodelman 246).” These stories were passed down from storyteller to audience until they were eventually written down and collected for consumption by the public. Due to the passing of time and fallibility the stories have changed throughout the years and slightly differ from culture to culture, however, “Stories similar to “Cinderella” can be found in historical records from as far back as the seventh century, and from a variety of places around the world (Nodelman 246).” Although the classic tales differ in various ways from their modern counterparts (such as Disney films, etc.), the characters and their journeys are still very much identifiable.
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