- First Dervish's Tale
- Second dervish's tale
My reaction:
Wow. The First Dervish's Tale was a prime example of things escalating quickly. One day all is fine and dandy and then the next, there is betrayal, incest, and he loses an eye. How can a vizier so easily reach into someones eye, just to gouge it out? Ugh...i'm gagging just thinking about it. Control yourself. Next, onto the incest. That is just weird. I love how the prince's uncle is just explaining how the brother and sister were madly in love. Of course, he is one of the more sane characters in this tale. He actually tried to stop it by keeping the sister away from the brother. But they still ended up sleeping together. Ew. Just no. Who comes up with this sort of thing? And just to improve the story, somehow the vizier managed to take over the city. And of course everyone had died except for the prince. Death toll: 4+? Father, uncle, cousin (male), and cousin's sister...I think that is it.
So far, the Second dervish's tale is not nearly as bad. It of course has a demon stealing a woman way from her marriage. Stereotypical much? This happened to the woman who king Shahrayar ran into. Seriously, these demons must not be very attractive, if they can't even marry once in a while. And for having someone who is technically "stolen goods", demons are really protective of the women. Besides calling them whore and slut of course. My final reflection; i have no idea what is going on with this whole striking her head off thing....so I will analyze that one once I actually understand the situation.
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