The Story of The Eighth Night
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APA |
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The Story of The Eighth Night
The third old man tells the story of his “mule.” When the old man had surprised his wife in bed with a slave, his wife turned him (the old man) into a dog. He ran to a butcher shop, where the butcher’s daughter recognized that he was a man in dog form. She sprinkled him with magical water and restored him to human form. The old man then asked for a bit of the magical water, which he used to turn his wife into the mule who accompanies him.
The demon, amazed and “swaying with delight,” grants the final third of the merchant’s life. The demon leaves and the merchant thanks the three old men and then returns home.
Shahrazad remarks that this story was not as strange and amazing as the story of the Fisherman, and her sister says, on cue, “Please, what story?” And Shahrazad begins a new set of stories that will continue for several nights. The king is hooked on her stories by now, and we know they will go on and on.
JUSTICE AND FORGIVENESS
This first set of stories is all about justice and forgiveness. The demon is like the king in demanding blood for blood justice, whether or not there is personal guilt involved. Shahrazad is no more responsible for what the king’s first wife did than the merchant is for innocently scattering date pits, one of which killed the demon’s son. In both cases, a new, better kind of justice must be taught. This is what the stories in the first set do–they teach justice with forbearance. Evil people are turned into deer and dogs, not killed, and the innocent merchant is set free, thanks to the care and charity of the three old men, who may well be allegories of the three revealed religions of the book, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which brought justice to the pagan world of blood guilt.
This world of the Nights is complex, instructive, pious at times and quite bawdy at others. Even this first small chunk of the Nights includes good and bad demons, plenty of sex, including a relationship between a demon and a human woman kept locked in a chest, instructions on how to restore a king to sanity, how to control a wife, how to keep a promise, how to tell stories to out-argue one’s father, how a woman can be brave, and so on. Not all the stories are as uplifting as this sequence, but some are even more pious, and most teach about the manners and ethics of survival in a complex, difficult world ruled by capricious tyrants, but ultimately governed by a benevolent God.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Thousand and One Nights. Translated by Husain Haddawy. In The Norton Anthology: World Masterpieces. Expanded edition. Volume 1. New York: Norton, 1995, 1514-1540.
Task 5. Read the selections from the Arabian Nights and Suras
TASK 5. Read the selections from the Arabian Nights and Suras (also known as Chapters) 1: The Opening, 4: The Women, and 5: The Dinner Table from the Quran. The link for the Arabian Nights is https://www.learner.org/series/invitation-to-world-literature/the-thousand-and-one-nights/ (Links to an external site.) and the Quran (known as Koran) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/koran/browse.html (Links to an external site.)
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40 points out of 50: The essay illustrates solid understanding of the relevant material by correctly addressing most of the relevant content; identifying and explaining most of the key concepts/ideas; using correct terminology; explaining the reasoning behind most of the key points/claims; and/or where necessary or useful, substantiating some points with accurate examples. The answer is complete. |
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Use of Sources (worth a maximum of 20% of the total points). |
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10 out 20 points: References to scholarly sources are occasionally given; many statements seem unsubstantiated. Frequent errors in APA 6th Edition format, leaving the reader confused about the source of the information. There are significant errors of the formation in the references and citations. And/or there is a significant use of highly questionable sources. |
15 out 20 points: Credible Scholarly sources are used effectively support claims and are, for the most part, clear and fairly represented. APA 6th Edition is used with only a few minor errors. There are minor errors in reference and/or citations. And/or there is some use of questionable sources. |
20 points: Credible scholarly sources are used to give compelling evidence to support claims and are clearly and fairly represented. APA 6th Edition format is used accurately and consistently. The student uses above the maximum required references in the development of the assignment. |
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