Essay Comparing The Fisherman And The Jinnee

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Most people probably don’t know that Aladdin is actually based off of a story a little bit. When reading “The Fisherman and the Jinnee”, or while watching Aladdin you can very easily tell that these two were sort of based off each other. Whether it be the fact that there’s genies in both stories, the muslim culture, or just the fact that they may share themes. The genies themselves are even comparable too. It’s obvious that Aladdin and “The Fisherman and the Jinnee” have some connections between the two of them.
Aladdin is obviously a very well-known Disney movie. The crowd that draws the most attention to it is the kids, and the most well-known character is the genie. Everyone loves the genie because he just brings a lot of energy, and also …show more content…

One being the fact that both genies were discovered. Obviously there are a lot of differences between the two genies, like the fact the genie in Aladdin is nice and actually grants people three wishes, and the other jinnee does not offer his three wishes and is very mean and intimidating. Both genies though did not like being genies and wanted to be freed. They were both in their bottles for a very long time. Another comparison is characters pretending to be ones they’re not. Aladdin would pretend to be a prince, and in the other one the jinnee himself wasn’t exactly performing the right actions of what a jinnee should. Both stories have to do with muslim culture, considering the fact that Allah came up in both of them. A big similarity happens at the end of both stories. In Aladdin, Aladdin himself tricks Jafar into the bottle when jafar is an extremely evil genie. In “The Fisherman and the Jinnee”, the fisherman tricks the jinnee into the bottle as well by saying that he didn’t think that the jinnee could fit his body into the bottle. There are many similarities and differences between them, and many more that I haven’t

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