THE WESTS VIEW OF THE ORIENTAL WOMAN BASED ON THE FRAME STORY OF THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

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The Thousand and One Nights, a collection of about 200 stories, is probably the most famous piece of Arabic literature in the West. It includes the adventures of such well-known characters as Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad. The stories of the Arabian Nights are folk tales from Arabia, Egypt, India, Persia, and other countries. The work in its present form was written in Arabic about 1500. In the early 1700's, Jean Antoine Galland translated the Arabian Nights into French. John Payne and Sir Richard Francis Burton wrote English translations of the collection in the 1880's. According to the Occident (west) the Orient (east) is an exotic and mysterious land. The sources of this assumption are the stories in The Thousand and One Nights. The following essay describes how these stories contributed to the western view of the eastern/oriental women.

Based on the reading of the frame story, we can conclude that the stories in the Thousand and One Nights lead the western readers to believe that the east is a place of magic where the people live luxurious and prosperous lives. (Fond of sport and merriment...custom to go out in quest of pleasure and amusement: - from the Tale of The Hunchback). These stories also make the east seem like a magical and exotic place. (...Jinni of gigantic stature carrying a chest...and there rose form the box a beautiful young girl: - from the Prologue). In the Thousand and One Arabian Nights, most or all the women are portrayed as extremely beautiful and seductive. In addition to that it seems that the women were lustier than their men and faced no moral dilemma in deceiving them.

ne Nights, also called Arabian Nights, begins with the story of King Shahriyar, who has learned that his wi

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