Each woman in “Arabian Nights” is unique in her own way. The characters of women vary greatly throughout the book; there is a range of good and evil, a full spectrum of women is described. There is never one general image of women that is portrayed throughout the book. And not all of the women are human either. There are ghouls, she-devils, and many other supernatural beings taking the shape of a woman. The main character, Shahrazad, is a wonderful storyteller, who tells stories every night to a king. This king marries a different woman every day and every night, he kills her. Shahrazad heard of this terrible tragedy and thought up a plan to stop the women from being slaughtered. She decided to marry the king herself, and to entertain him with stories every night so that he would never get around to killing her. Thus the title, 1001 Arabian Nights, which is how many nights Shahrazad told stories to the king. Shahrazad, when telling the stories, adds in characters that have double meanings. Being the clever women she is, by adding certain characters to her stories she makes the king learn certain morals

All of the women that Shahrazad tells about have one thing in common. They are women. There is such a multitude of stories that almost every kind of woman is described, making it more realistic to normal life. There is definitely not one general image of women described. There are the many multiple images showing every kind of woman, which, perhaps, was in Shahrazad’s intent. The king was killing women because

which may, in the end, save her life.

The best example of an unfaithful wife would be the enchantress mistress, in the Tale of the Enchanted King. She drugs the king every night so that he sleeps deep and then she takes leave of him. He learns this through his maids, “May god damn all treacherous, adulterous women. Alas, it is not right that such a young man like our master lives with this bitch who spends every night out.” (Pg. 56) She walks out of the city to a run-down hut, where she has been courting a decrepit black man. Shahrazad uses this story to stir the blood of the king, for he too suffered an adulterous wife. (Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Enchanted Kin