Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp - 1345 Words

In One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, the chapter â€Å"Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp†, created by Antoine Galland, tells of a young man’s luck filled journey from the poverty of the colonized into the riches of the colonizer. Aladdin, an idle street boy is tricked by a magician into fetching a lamp for him from a cave. To help him, Aladdin receives a ring which contains a genie who helps him escape after the magician traps Aladdin. After realizing that the lamp contains a powerful genie, Aladdin uses it to become rich and win the hand of the princess. Aladdin initiates the story as a colonial subject, causing him to strive for the fortune and success of his colonizer, resulting in mimicry of the magician and the use of neocolonialism,†¦show more content†¦Previously, Aladdin is the person taken advantage of and willing to work, now the roles are reversed, and the genie takes Aladdin’s place. The genie, upon rising from the earth, already displays a characteristic from the previously â€Å"colonized† Aladdin; the genie is less than human. The genie reveals itself to be a mythocal being who exists to serve. By calling itself the slave of an object belonging to Aladdin, the genie establishes himself as less than human, giving into the status of a slave. The genie not only gives into the status of a slave, but directly addresses itself to Aladdin as a slave, showing that the genie is taking Aladdin’s place as a colonial subject. The genie is described as being able to have interchangeable owners, displayi ng the genie as weak, and powerless to defend itself from being dominated. In jealousy of Aladdin, the magician tricks Princess Badroulbadour into trading the genie’s lamp for a new lamp, and â€Å"at the magician’s command carried him [the magician], together with the palace and the Princess in it, to a lonely place in Africa† (474). 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