Women In A Thousand And One Nights

A Thousand and One Nights By looking at the story, A Thousand and One Nights, one can see that it’s about how women were portrayed as weapons, which most readers do not see; this is important because every woman the king marries and has sex with gets killed after their wedding night, Men was always physically and mentally abusive to their spouse, and the way the structure plays a key role in the story. The story starts with a king and his brother, the king, Shahryar, finds out that his brother, Shahzaman’s wife was having an affair with this kitchen boy which made him come up with this assumption that all women are unfaithful so he kills them both and the story goes from there. Without question, every woman the king has an affair with gets

She asks, “And what prevents you from telling me?” (Jones, The Thousand and One Nights) He replied, “The fear of death.” (Jones, The Thousand and One Nights). She replies back, “By God, you are lying, this is nothing but an excuse. I swear by God, the Lord of Heaven, that if you don’t tell me and explain the cause of your laughter, I will leave you.” (Jones, The Thousand and One Nights). This quote explains a lot, she will leave him if he doesn’t tell her what the animals told him that made him laugh. He tells her that if he confesses the secret to her, he will die. The merchant did not know how to manage her so the rooster and the dog discusses what he should do to her and the rooster tells the dog, “He should take an oak branch, push her into a room, lock the door, and fall on her with the stick, beating her mercilessly until he breaks her arms and legs.” (Jones, The Thousand

She asks her little sister, Dinarzad to go by her plan too so she won’t get killed. The text explains how Shahrazad tells her little sister, “Sister, listen well to what I’m telling you, when I go to the king, I will send for you, and when you come and see that the king has finished with me, say, Sister if you are not sleepy tell us a story then I will begin to tell a story and it will cause the king to stop his practices, save myself, and deliver the people.” And Dinarzad replies, “Very well.” At nightfall the vizier takes Shahrazad to greet King Shahrayar and she starts to tear up, he asks her, “Why are you crying?” she replies, “I have a sister, and I wish to bid her good-bye before daybreak.” (Nabokov's Ada and the 1001 Nights) With that being said, every night, Dinarzad asks her sister if she was not sleepy, tell her a story and she tells her she is more than happy to tell her a story and they keep repeating this nesting structure process until the king changes his mind and is satisfied with keeping her daughter as his permanent