One thousand and the one-night story is about a king who mistrusted women after discovering that his wife cheated on him. So the king decided to resolve this by sleeping with different women every night and killing them the following morning. However, one wife called Shahrazad, found a trick to outsmart the king. This woman began giving the king a story during her first night, and when the morning came, she had not completed the story. The king didn’t know what to do and ended up sparing her for the next night (Nayebpour, 2017). Noting that the king could spare her to listen to her stories, she continued with the same trend for more than three years. During this period, the woman produced three male heirs, and during her thousand and one night, the king decided to spare her from beheading.
A thousand and one night stories have over a hundred stories, some of which are famous, others not. However, the one well-known story I have also heard is Aladdin’s wonderful lamp. The wonderful lamp is a story I have heard before; it was about a young boy called Aladdin who came from a poor background in a city in China. Aladdin meets a sorcerer who deceives him to steal an oil lamp from a magic cave (Housman, 2019). Being a poor man and with a hunger for richness, Aladdin agreed with what the sorcerer had to tell him. When Aladdin did that, several fortunes followed her in which all he wished came true. Unfortunately, after Alladin experienced a series of fortunes, the lamp was dismantled by a villain. This story was adapted by Disney world due to how famous it was and has been.
References
Housman, L. (2019). Aladdin and the wonderful lamp. Courier Dover Publications.
Nayebpour, K. (2017). Narrativity in The Thousand and One Nights. Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 8(4), 85-90.