Sunday, October 18, 2009

2. The tales from 1001 nights are very confusing and many of them are the same and told from different perspectives. For example “The Huchback’s Tale” is a story with many mysterious situations after which several characters from the story have a chance to describe what happened from their point of view. That time would be considered as entropic: have many segments and all of them come to the same ending. At the same time, the beginning of “The Hunchback’s Tale” is told in Teleological time as we can see an exact linear progression. The 1001 Nights tales consist of all three time dimensions. For example, the “Tale of the Three Apples” has stellar time as there are events revealed in segments. First she tells us about what is happening in present time, and then Scheherazade refers to the previous deeds of the man before finally coming back to the present and bringing the apple into the King’s house. In this situation, we can see that his knowledge about apple affects his behavior. He recognizes the apple and tries to find out the complete story.

2 comments:

Mohammad A. awal said...

it is so true that the 1001 nights stories are very confusing. i started reading it and i got lost in the middle of it. so i started reading it all over again.

Irina said...

It's amazing how the stories intertwine so beautifully. I will admit that it is rather difficult to understand at times but overall i enjoyed it. I love reading something and getting lost in the reading but not the tpe of lost where you do not understand what you are reading but instead that you are being transported to a different world. The stories are also extremely interesting and popular.