What is the main theme of 1001 Nights?
Eroticism and sexuality are a major theme and motif within the Arabian Nights. In the frame story, King Shahryar struggles with accepting his wife’s sexual desires that lead to her unfaithfullness when he is away during war.
What narrative style is used in 1001 Nights?
The answer is C. A framed story such as 1001 Nights has as numerous narrators as stories. Explanation: Scheherazade tells some tales to the Sultan; however, these tales contain stories and tales within them, making 1001 Nights an example of the narrative thechnique a story within a story.
How would you describe Shahrazad’s storytelling?
The answer is A: Shahrazad’s storytelling in 1001 Nights achieves its goal because she never finishes her stories. The narrator of the story, and last wife of the Monarch, develops a ploy to have him listen to a story that she tells the first night spent with him.
Who is Dinarzad?
Dunyazad (Persian: دنیازاد, Dunyāzād; aka Dunyazade, Dunyazatde, Dinazade, or Dinarzad) is the younger sister of Queen Scheherazade. In the story cycle, it is she who—at Scheherazade’s instruction—initiates the tactic of cliffhanger storytelling to prevent her sister’s execution by Shahryar.
How is Aladdin Chinese?
In early European adaptations of the story, Aladdin was depicted as being Chinese. Disney, however, modeled its Aladdin from the movie The Thief of Baghdad (1940) and transplanted the story to a fictional Middle Eastern city. Though the 2000 mini-series Arabian Nights returned the Aladdin story to China.
Why does the vizier’s daughter Shahrazad want to marry the king?
Witnessing what was happening in her city, a well educated women named Shahrazad decides to marry King Shahrayar “ so that [she may] either succeed in saving the people or perish and die like the rest” (B414). Her father tries to convince her not to do it but he is unsuccessful.
What stories does Shahrazad’s father tell?
Her father, the king’s vizier, knows that she is putting her life at risk and tell her a story called “The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey” where a donkey gives an ox advice, but this ends up having bad consequences for the donkey.
Who is Scheherazade’s father?
Jafar
What does the ox learn from the donkey?
By persuading the ox to outsmart his owners, the donkey encourages deceit in the face of oppression.
Why does Shahrazad’s father tell her the tale of the ox and the donkey?
Shahrazad tells her father she will marry Shahrayar. 1. Father tells her The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey to dissuade her. Both of these tales were told to Shahrazad by her father in an attempt to discourage her from marrying the King.
Who tells the tale of the ox and the donkey?
Father
Why did the demon want to kill the merchant?
The Arabian Nights-The Merchant and the Demon Then, an old demon appears and pulls out his sword to kill the merchant. The old man asked why he wanted to kill him; the demon replied that the merchant killed his son when he threw the date pit. So, the demon wanted blood for blood.
How does the story of the merchant and the demon end?
The merchant learns he unknowingly killed the demon’s son who was struck by a stray date pit. He weeps and recites verses about how trouble will always strike the fortunate. As dawn approaches, Shahrazad stops the story. She promises the rest of the tale will be better; she’ll tell it if the king lets her live.
Why does the younger brother Shahzaman travel to India to visit his brother shahrayar?
Two brothers, Shahrayar and Shahzaman, rule over separate lands (India/Indo-China and Samarkand, respectively.) They love each other dearly, but could not rule together because of succession laws. So after living ten years apart, Shahrayar sends his chief advisor (his vizier) to summon Shahzaman to India for a visit.
What are Shahrazad’s motives for telling the king a different story every night in 1001 Nights?
She is trying to put him to sleep so that she can escape. She is trying to delay her own execution at the hands of the king. She hopes to distract the king long enough for her sisters to steal his gold. She hopes to spare any future wives of the king from being executed.