The ring is a symbol with multiple purposes, according to The Book of Symbols the ring also symbolize “bonding, binding, promise, vows, and covenants.” Now the genie is bonded to the ring and ring bearer, Aladdin. Aladdin and the genie are in a covenant of master and servant. The meaning of the ring be a symbol of bonding goes back to the story of Prometheus. In order for Prometheus to be released from the stone he had to wear a ring by the command of zeus “To appease the law, a ring was made out of a link of the chain and a chip of the rock was mounted on the ring, which Prometheus wore forevermore.” (http://www.prometheanspark.org/who-was-prometheus.html). Even though the ring seems to represent enslavement for the genie, it is also a sign