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Types of Tricks in Alf Laylah wa Laylah -The Story of King and Prince and Mistress and Seven Ministers-

Alf Laylah wa Laylah is the book of folk tales of Middle East. In this book many tales which include all subjects of human life are connected systematically in the narrative device of frame story and contain the thoughts and the emotion of Middle Eastern people. This paper studies the types of tricks in Alf Laylah wa Laylah focusing the story of king and prince and mistress and seven ministers. As for the women's tricks, they are classified by four types like the trick to cover up the unfaithful deeds and the trick to make men fall into a difficult situation by queer ways and the audacity and the trick to intervene in the love affairs of young couples and the trick to intrigue against the hostile eyewitness and make him die. Usually women's tricks are successful in most cases. As for the men's tricks, they are classified by three types like the trick to gain the love and the trick to intrigue against prince and the trick to make a woman of one-sided love fall into a difficult situation. Men's tricks are failed in most cases. When we compare the tricks of women with those of men, women show the image of the fineness and the strongness while men show the image of the stupidness and the feebleness. This phenomenon reflects the sexual suppression of women and the sense of alienation of them in the patriarchal system in the medieval Arab society. The Arab women would express their miserable situations satirically in the imaginary world of stories.