What’s more, some even go on to plunder the other works that grew out of the One Thousand and One Nights, and one such offender is none other than a game that would wear its inspiration’s name: Arabian Nights.Īrabian Nights’s stealing of the original works’s name is not only part of its lazy integration of elements common to Arabian fiction, but it makes the game a bit hard to look up.
Some of these like the Prince of Persia games and Disney’s animated film Aladdin are able to use the elements from this seminal work of Arabian fiction to build new enjoyable experiences, but for everyone who builds off the work of the past, there are those who plunder it to avoid having to do any creative work themselves. This repeats itself for the one thousand and one nights, and by the end of her many tales, the king realizes after all this time with Scheherazade he no longer wishes to execute his wife and the cycle finally ends.įrom this collection of tales emerged hundreds more, fiction set in the Middle East quick to borrow from the stories found within. Desperate to know the rest, the king stays her execution for another day, only for her to once again leave the night’s tale on a cliffhanger.
However, the vizier’s daughter Scheherazade believes she has a way of ending this cycle, and on the night of her wedding, she spins a yarn for Shahryar but refuses to end it. In the story One Thousand and One Nights, sometimes known as Arabian Nights to English speaking audiences, King Shahryar puts his wife to death for her infidelity, and believing any other woman would do the same, he begins an awful chain of marrying virgins and putting them to death the next day.
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