Genies In The Film Aladdin

Have you ever wanted to be granted wishes; maybe from a genie or another mythical creatures? In the two stories we have read they have dealt with genies. In one story they was a good genie that wanted to help make dreams come true and the other story wanted to destroy a man’s life. Both stories have many differences, but they also have many similarities involving tricking the genies back into their homes and sending them far away where nobody would be able to find them.
In the movie Aladdin, it portrays the genie as a good genie and he wants to help Aladdin. Aladdin does not go looking for the lamp for his own needs he accumulates in by accident. As Aladdin hold the lamp he rubs it and a genie appears to tell him he has three wishes. The Genie

grants Aladdin three wishes that eventually help his future. There are conditions on which he can use the wishes, for instance no using it to make someone fall in love with you, but you could use it to make yourself look better to the person you love. In Aladdin there becomes two genies in the end. When Jiavar uses his wish to become the most powerful genie he doesn’t realize that Aladdin has tricked him into the bottle of a genie.
With the story of “The Fisherman and the Jinnee” there is also a jinnee found by accident.

The fisherman had never thought about finding a jinnee and when he came crossed the lamp he was surprised. By rubbing the lamp the fisherman had assumed he would be granted wishes by the jinnee. He was mistaken; when the jinnee emerged from the lamp; the fisherman was terrified. Here before him float this horrifying jinnee with legs like masts of ships, nostrils were two inverted bowls, and his eyes blazing like torches. This struck fear into the fisherman like no other thing has done before. When the jinnee told the fisherman he was going to kill him the fisherman exclaimed, “Spare me, mighty jinnee, and Allah will spare you; kill me, and so shall Allah destroy you!” This did not frighten the Jinnee. There are very distinct differences in with the jinnee in “The Fisherman and The Jinnee” and the genie in

Aladdin.
In both stories, they revolve around the idea of a genie and them helping their master, or so they thought.

In Aladdin the genie is nothing but helpful and caring but in “the Fisherman and the Jinnee” the jinnee is nothing but evil and out to help himself. You could say the Jinnee in “the Fisherman and the Jinnee” he was selfish, although the genie in Aladdin was a little selfish he did not ask for his freedom, Aladdin wanted to grant him that for helping him. There are very different characteristics when looking at the genies, the one is nice on the eyes so to speak and the other jinnee was not as attractive or appealing to others. When the masters found the lamps they both thought they would be getting wishes, the fisherman had never dreamt about being told he could choose his own death. Both the masters are involved in trickery in their individual stories. When the fisherman tricked the jinnee back into his lamp by saying bet you can’t fit in that lamp the jinnee couldn’t back down, he thought he was being challenged because you really could do it. Also in Aladdin when Aladdin talks Jiavar into wishing to be a genie he knows the lamp comes with being a genie, all that Jiavar can think about is being the most powerful genie in the world. With his arrogant personality Jiavar wishes to be a genie and all the responsibilities it

entails.
In conclusion both stories are alike and different in many ways. Both stories started out with the hopes of being great and one took a turn for the worst and the other had bumps on the way to the final purpose. In the end they both have a happy ending, in Aladdin he gets the girl and destroys the evil they were faced with and in “the Fisherman and the Jinnee’ the fisherman concurs his fears of the jinnee and gets rid of him so nobody will be able to find him. Having wishes from a genie isn’t always as good as it seems, it comes with great responsibility and a lesson to be learned.