Shahrazad, daughter of Vizier, decides she wants to sleep with king shahrayar knowing she will be put to death the next morning. Shahrazad was not unfaithful but to save the lives of the young women in the kingdom. For every night, Shahrazad explains in details a story she tells to the king. She became the first women to not die the next morning but in return to be put to death after her stories are finished. Hoping her courageous and fearless act, can change the views of King Shahrayar.

The tale is focused on a man and his brothers known as two dogs. All opened a shop and became shopkeepers. Both the brothers struggling to live, the man provides them with his profit splitting it upon equally. The man encounter a woman and the woman made a request. Marry her and in return reward the man for his kindness and charity. Knowing his two brothers, jealous and envied, attempts to kill both of them. It was the wife (also a she-demon) that saved him and then punished his brothers by having them turned into dogs. Now what is the purpose of this story? Shahrazad speaks all her tales to teach Shahrayar that not all women are bad. We see from the second mans tale the sympathy and successfulness of the man is what made his malicious brothers into dogs. The wife protected her husband.

Through the stories we observe the interaction between the two sexes and the punishment for those who become unfaithful. The Arabian culture emphasizes on their women and how precious they are. shahrazad displays her stories with emphasizes of faitlhful women. In her stories, the women are the ones to show loyalty and happiness to their husbands.

From fighting together to fighting each other, here lies a story of two Greek heroes Agamemnon and Achilles. Agamemnon, warlord of the Achaean army, sacked a city of Trojan allied with his partner in crime Achilles. Thus, capturing maidens Chryseis and Briseis. Chryses, father of Chryseis, prays to Apollo(god of  priest) to get back her daughter from Agamemnon. This creates an argument from our two heroes that were once friends.

The epic opens up as “Rage”, showing emotions of Achilles anger eating his soul away. Agamemnon selfishness and power creates him to take away Achilles prize possession Briseis. Achilles has a point here stating in this passage “ I don’t have any quarrel with the trojans….. unhonoring myself and piling up a fortune for you” (lines162-181, pg234). Achilles emphasizes on “my” showing his dirty work doesn’t grant him a reward as big as Agamemnon and now he wants to take Achilles prize away. It’s like a drama featuring two guys from high school fighting over a girl.

Although the morality is focused on rage, it concerns with the actions of the gods. The two gods Apollo and Athena enforced the argument to be much bigger. Apollo started the argument creating the raid to take back Chryseis. Athena prevents Achilles from using his sword and insult Agamemnon instead verbally. The conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon highlights the aspects of life, morality and the vital importance of honor.