Comparing the Themes Between the Thousand and One Nights and Medea

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Comparing the Themes Present Between the Thousand and One Nights and Medea
Literature is the key to our world or language. Many authors have used literature to reflect what is happening in our societies through their works. This essay will be comparing Medea and the Thousand and One Night. The Thousand and One Nights and Medea authors have shown us the communities where women are undermined and treated unjustly for different reasons. It gives us the reason to summarize and analyses these two books as we compare and find out what both authors are enlighting us. This essay will show how both women in the relevant books play an essential role in solving problems facing them and the community. Though there are points that differ in each book and there are those that are alike. The main characters in both books are women; while solving problems, they use different tactics and methods. The Thousand and One Nights and Medea are similar by indicating how women are unjustly treated in the community. In contrast, the films are dissimilar in their themes and nature of play.
The cost of that retaliation takes in either Medea and The Thousand- and One-Nights damage to several individualities and out-turns the harm of several lives. The reason for avenging somebody for doing erroneous depicts that this was a communal way of looking for fairness during the antique era (Easteal et al. 110). Through the literary works of these authors, it is evident that gender takes part in a critical function in how someone goes around in search of reprisal on their selected targets. Medea, the chief persona in Medea, is a very intelligent and cunning lady who uses her intelligence to pursue vengeance against her spouse Jason after leaving her for another female, Glauce. Medea says, "Through being considered clever, I have suffered much" (line 693). It is depicted that Medea has faced what she is certain of is definitive disloyalty.
All of her movements all over the play are driven by this solo performance. Medea justifies all of the terrible wrongdoings she committed because women are mistreated in this creation. She asserts that womenfolk experience very much, and looking for revenge against Jason is nothing equivalent to what females pass through daily (Puchner et al., 463). She asserts that "women are afflicted with the most wretched existence on earth because while men are free to divorce and remarry at whim" (lines 213-261). She further declares that "women can do nothing but still suffer the consequences of male decisions" (lines 213-261). Even though Medea is defensible in her doings, she goes to life-threatening lengths to seek retribution on Jason, murdering everyone Jason loves and cares for, counting her broods.
Similarly, in The Thousand and One Nights, payback is also carried on by the infidelity of a loved one. King Shahrayar is "driven mad by his wife's infidelity" (Mardrus et al. 1567). King Shahrayar's extreme anger and passion drive him to murder his disloyal wife and courtesans and a new female each morning after he sleeps with them lessening his territory night by Night (Mardrus et al. 50). We see extreme measures taken by characters in avenging those who wronged them. In Medea, Euripides thinks about the female mind and the reasons for revenge through Jason when he says, "the point that seems to upset you that I grew tired of your bed" (line 540-541). Jason keeps repeating severally that this is why Medea was hurt because she has been wronged in the bedroom. What makes Medea impulsive is that Jason has taken a stab at her sexuality. Unlike Medea, King Shahrayar seeks revenge because his ego is shattered. He does not understand why women need anyone else but him (Mardrus et al.,10). He is the king of all the land; no one else can come close to him. The revenge was so violent and excessive because the pride of both Medea and King Shahrayar was damaged sufficiently.
One huge dynamic of the whole war against humanity in both The Thousand and One Nights and Medea seems to be against women (Wink 8). From King Shahrayar murdering a wife every Night to Jason attempting to treason Medea, womankind has continually been tinted as the makers of tragedy. Still, females overcame this insignificant mentality and were triumphant.
Due to traditional stereotypes of women, literature around the world is heavily male dominant, with few characters who are female outside of the cliché tropes. However, in many literary works, she assumes that she will be a strong lead that challenges patriarchal values whenever a female character is introduced. The authors of both The Thousand and One Nights and Medea use their female-centered stories to show their contrasting beliefs on the role of women not only in literature but also in society. A story with a female main character can be empowering, but this is not always the case when comparing and contrasting Medea and The Thousand and One Nights. For their respective periods, Medea and The Thousand and One Nights stand out in the literature because the role played by the main characters in these works of literature are not empowering.
In the Thousand and One Nights, Shahrayar continues the practice of daily marriage and daily killings of his new wives every single day (Puchner et al., 462). Eventually, a girl named Shahrazad hears of the king's actions and decides to stop the madness of the king. She shrugs off her father, who is attempting to dissuade her from doing this, and goes and marries the king. She marries the king and tells him amazing stories that captivate the king. She ends her stories every morning just before dawn and promises to finish the story if the king willingly spares her to hear the end of the story, but the end never comes. For one thousand- and one night, Shahrazad can tell stories to save herself from execution by her husband. Eventually, she runs out of stories, but now the king has fallen for her and can forgive all women, and the killings stop. The roles of women in The Thousand and One night are interesting.
On the one hand, many enslaved women and concubines had to respect and obey the men who owned them. On the other hand, Shahrazad's courage and creativeness enable the king to heal from the distrust of women and save the remaining women of her city from being killed. Shahrazad is a heroine and empowering. Contrary, in Medea's literature, Medea, on the other end, kills all of her family, including her husband, Jason, and her two children, for revenge (Kasimis 402). She was avenging that her husband, Jason, had been unfaithful to her after marrying another wife, the king's daughter.
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