The Fisherman And The First Voyage Of Sinbad: Two Arabian Nights

The Story of the Fisherman and The First Voyage of Sinbad are two Arabian Nights’ stories that seem to have some things in common, but yet have some things unalike. First, we have the setting. These two stories both take place by the sea, but the appearances are completely different. In Sinbad’s story, he sailed on the Persian Gulf, where beautiful islands with beautiful kingdoms lay still, filled with luscious fruit and clear springs. The beautiful springs of water flowed through the islands, watering all sorts of delicious herbs and peaceful animals. In the fisherman’s story, however, the seashore was horrific and nasty. The ocean floor had tons of waste left by people, and mucky water filled with shredded leaves and prickling tree branches. There also was a lot of moving around in Sinbad’s story, but the fisherman didn’t move around as much, and stayed by the seashore the whole time. This seashore was more horrifying than a week old pile of dead fish! Next, there are the
In The First Voyage, the conflict is man versus nature, because throughout the story, Sinbad faced troubles which nature had cause, like the whale that looked like an island or the big waves which made it hard for him to float through the sea. He didn’t have much trouble with humans throughout his story, as much as he did with nature. In the fisherman’s story, the conflict was man versus man, which may seem like the fisherman versus the evil genius, but deep down the real conflict was wisdom versus ego. Towards the end of the story, the fisherman tricks the genius to get him back into the bottle he came in. The fisherman told the genius that he didn’t believe he came from the bottle, and the genius got so annoyed that he showed the fisherman that he really could fit in the bottle, and the fisherman locked him in the bottle again just as he was locked in before. Though the genius is called a genius, it was the fisherman that was much