Comparing The Fisherman And The Jinnee And Aladdin

838 Words2 Pages

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 …show more content…

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

Open Document