Summary

In the Story of A Thousand And One Nights, the King  Shahryar discovers his wife to be unfaithful. Full of rage at all of woman kind, he vows to marry and kill a new wife every night. Heroically, the viser's daughter volunteers to marry the king, hoping to break the cycle. The viser assists the daughter by telling her two stories. These stories mainly involve complacent and docile wives, and she tells her stories to the king. Every night, she dosen't tell the king the end of the stories. The king, wanting to hear the end of the story, lets his new wife live. The daughter of the viser continues to tell these stories with help from her sister and father to tell her more stories to tell the king. She tells tales with underlying themes of  peace and not acting out on revenge and violence. The king Shahryar eventually recants his promise of killing his wives. Her plan worked and she became queen.

“Scheherazade.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., www.britannica.com/topic/Scheherazade-by-Rimsky-Korsakov. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025. 

Translated with an introd. by N. J. Dawood. Engravings on wood from original designs by William Harvey. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. [Harmondsworth, Eng. ;] [Baltimore, Md.] :Penguin Books, 1973.