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Patriarchy In 1001 Nights And A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Patriarchal societies play a major role in many fairy tales. These societies are especially evident in A Thousand and One Nights, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In each of these tales, the patriarchal system inherent in the story causes obvious opposition between either a husband and wife, or ....
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....was able to, through her stories, slowly reverse the role of power so that the king no longer marries for a night, then kills them the next day. The framed narrative in this story is centered around the transferal of power from the higher, dominant male to the lower, originally submissive female. Every night when Shaherazad tells her stories, her power increases just a little, because her husband will always be left wanting more from her, thereby not killing her.
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