The Arabian Nights

The tale of the husband and the parrot

Shahrazad told this story to the king to explain the dangers of jealousy. There was a merchant with a beautiful wife. He had to go on a journey and he was of jealous nature and didn’t trust his wife. The merchant bought a intelligent and knowledgeable parrot. When he left for his journey and came back, the parrot informed him of his wife and lover. The wife thought one of the slaves must have told the merchant, but they swore it was the parrot. The wife decided to trick the parrot. When the merchant came home, he asked the parrot for information but the parrot replied, he was unable to see or hear because of the intense darkness and rain. The merchant got mad because he thought the parrot lied about his wife, so he killed the parrot. Later, he felt guilty because the parrot was telling the truth.
The story of the Fisherman and the Demon

The story of the Fisherman and the Demon is like the situation of Shahrazad and Shahrayar. Shahrazad was cunning and intelligent like the fisherman to trap the King in her spell and stop him from killing her. The demon becomes physically trapped while the king is almost helpless to her will because he needs to hear the endings of the stories. The demon tries to kill the fisherman but then the situations turns and the demon turns into the helpless one.Shahrazad does the same thing by turning the King’s evil plot against him by her storytelling that keeps her alive night after night.

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