Scheherazade's Story and Stories
Reading Notes
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| the eldest daughter of the grand-vizir |
Background Information
The way this series was written was very clever, with Scheherazade, the daughter of the grand-vizir, deciding to take on the murderous and sad Sultan. Sultan had been deceived by his wife whom he had loved very much and spoiled greatly, and from then on decided to take on a new wife every night and strangle her to death the following morning. The goal of Scheherazade was to stop this cycle by marrying him and telling him stories so that he lets her live in order to finish the story… a very cunning thought.
Comments and Thoughts
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| "The Story of the Parrot" |
Out of all of the stories that were told, I found it interesting that each of them ended up being fables that contained lessons to be learned, especially by the Sultan. “The Story of the Parrot” was a story of a story about the story being told, which was a mind twist that I enjoyed. In “The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind”, I saw an interesting Biblical allusion to the story “The Binding of Isaac”, which is when Abraham is told to sacrifice his one and only son to the Lord and then last minute the son is switched out for an animal sacrifice. This can be found in Genesis 22. This loops back into the story again: Isaac’s life is spared much like Scheherazade’s.
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