Genies In The Film Aladdin

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Have you ever wanted to be granted wishes; maybe from a genie or another mythical creatures? In the two stories we have read they have dealt with genies. In one story they was a good genie that wanted to help make dreams come true and the other story wanted to destroy a man’s life. Both stories have many differences, but they also have many similarities involving tricking the genies back into their homes and sending them far away where nobody would be able to find them. In the movie Aladdin, it portrays the genie as a good genie and he wants to help Aladdin. Aladdin does not go looking for the lamp for his own needs he accumulates in by accident. As Aladdin hold the lamp he rubs it and a genie appears to tell him he has three wishes. The Genie …show more content…

The fisherman had never thought about finding a jinnee and when he came crossed the lamp he was surprised. By rubbing the lamp the fisherman had assumed he would be granted wishes by the jinnee. He was mistaken; when the jinnee emerged from the lamp; the fisherman was terrified. Here before him float this horrifying jinnee with legs like masts of ships, nostrils were two inverted bowls, and his eyes blazing like torches. This struck fear into the fisherman like no other thing has done before. When the jinnee told the fisherman he was going to kill him the fisherman exclaimed, “Spare me, mighty jinnee, and Allah will spare you; kill me, and so shall Allah destroy you!” This did not frighten the Jinnee. There are very distinct differences in with the jinnee in “The Fisherman and The Jinnee” and the genie in …show more content…

In Aladdin the genie is nothing but helpful and caring but in “the Fisherman and the Jinnee” the jinnee is nothing but evil and out to help himself. You could say the Jinnee in “the Fisherman and the Jinnee” he was selfish, although the genie in Aladdin was a little selfish he did not ask for his freedom, Aladdin wanted to grant him that for helping him. There are very different characteristics when looking at the genies, the one is nice on the eyes so to speak and the other jinnee was not as attractive or appealing to others. When the masters found the lamps they both thought they would be getting wishes, the fisherman had never dreamt about being told he could choose his own death. Both the masters are involved in trickery in their individual stories. When the fisherman tricked the jinnee back into his lamp by saying bet you can’t fit in that lamp the jinnee couldn’t back down, he thought he was being challenged because you really could do it. Also in Aladdin when Aladdin talks Jiavar into wishing to be a genie he knows the lamp comes with being a genie, all that Jiavar can think about is being the most powerful genie in the world. With his arrogant personality Jiavar wishes to be a genie and all the responsibilities it

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