One Nights Women

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The book The One Thousand and One Nights as a typical representative works in middle ancient Arabia literature is the crystallization of wisdom from Arab. There are a lot of characters created by this book such as the clever Alibaba, Beautiful and intelligent Scheherazade and the forty thieves that are so cruel. Because a lot of stories collected and the characters created in the book are told from the nomads or merchants of ancient Arabia when they gathered or chatted around the fire, ate food for amusement. So the stories and characters in this book can reflect the living condition of Arab. We can know the Arabia culture better just from some female images in this book.
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The Muslim nationality is a kind of nationality who embrace Allah very much. As a Muslim women, you have to obey you husband in your marriage. The Koran said that "virtuous women must be obeyed and abide by the principles in private."[7]So that long time in this kind of concept influence the Arabia women formed the characters that obedience, conservatism and dependence gradually. A lot of female choose to stay at home to help the husband and teach the children, even when they go outside occasionally they have to cover their face by a piece of the veil. Under this kind of situation, the female lost their self-viewpoint and become a vassal of man step by step. Also, the rights of female can't be guaranteed by laws. Even some stories told that a husband can kill his wife as his, please. In the story he Jewish Kazi and His Pious Wife, a Jewish businessman want to take forcible possession of a big fortune from the girl's father that earned when he was alive. He uses a lot of ways to cheated it and even married this woman. But after he married her he just treats her like a tool and Free disposal. To prevent his wife talk to other people, he didn't allow her go out and locked her up with Iron chain[5].In the story love between wife and husband is a kind of property. Women have no status at

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