Reading Response of "1001 Arabian Nights"

     In deed,I think i am very familiar with "1001 Arabian Nights", for it is my bedtime story at young age. Till the three sections of book i read today quite open my understanding of it, because there are still much details about story that i don't know. The three contain entirely the beginning of how 1001 story arose and the happy ending of King and his wife,and two small story in between which are narrated by Wazir to persuade his daughter not marry King.

    The first section "STORY OF KING SHAHRYAR AND HIS BROTHER" talked that King Shahryar missed his brother Shah Zaman and wanted to his brother to visit him. And at the day of departure Shah Zaman found  his wife's treason so that  he got excessive grief and weak. Thereupon when he rested at the palace he found King Shahryar was also cuckolded that recover him but frenzy the King.The despondent twain started to tramp and accidentally met Jinni Ifrit's imprisoned bride who threat them to stroke her.Finally the lady's exerperience inspire them that King Shahryar

"decided never to intermarry with womankind"    and

"He also sware himself by a binding oath that whatever wife he married he would abate her maidenhead at night and slay her next morning, to make sure of his honor."

      I used to believe King Shahryar is a brutal and tyrannical king  to slay women without a warrant.Now it is reasonable that he became brutal king because he had such a pitiful experience.However there are some logical problem that i cannot understand.

 So they fared forth saying either to other, "Allah! Allah!" and: "There be no Majesty and there be no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great, and with Him we seek refuge from women's malice and sleight, for of a truth it hath no mate in might. Consider, O my brother, the ways of this marvelous lady with an Ifrit, who is so much more powerful than we are. Now since there hath happened to him a greater mishap than that which befell us and which should bear us abundant consolation, so return we to our countries and capitals, and let us decide never to intermarry with womankind, and presently we will show them what will be our action."

I found they were inspired by lady's experience,but they did the same odious deed to Ifrit's wife as what blackman did to Queen.Maybe they felt it was all the fault of Queen because she may threat to blackman;maybe they felt Ifrit is much more miserable than themself because even Ifrit has strong power, his wife still betray him;maybe they know "there never was nor is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth"; except they agree the lady's way.Because i think the lady is also disloyal.

    And there are the same logical problems about merchant and his wife's small story in "THE TALE OF THE BULL AND THE ASS" . Why wife will repent when merchant use mulberry twigs to hit his wife very hard until she beg for pardon? Can it easily make wife obedient?

    Thus I learned a lot but i still puzzled a lot.