The Thousand and One Nights Flashcards
The Thousand and One Nights is also known as…
The Arabian Nights
How do the tales seamlessly flow into one another?
The characters of one story are the narrators of the next
In “The Fisherman and the Jinnee”, how does the fisherman save his own life?
Cunning
In all three of the stories:
“The Fisherman and the Jinnee”
“The Tale of King Yunan and the Doctor”
“The Tale of King Sinbad and the Falcon”
What do the characters have in common?
The Jinnee, King Yunan, and King Sinbad are all foolishly ignorant and arrogantly prideful; they attempt (and, in the latter case, succeed) to harm those who’ve done them nothing but good
The fisherman, the doctor, and the falcon are all helpful and innocent, yet are nearly punished by the “villains” in their tales
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Within months of its appearance in Europe, the popularity of The Thousand and One Nights rivaled that of even The Bible
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