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Aladdin 2019 - Literature Review

MIDDLE EAST FOLKLORE

Directions: Watch Aladdin 2019 musical movie and provide the following:


Characters:

The characters in the musical movie are the following:

  • Aladdin

  • Princess Jasmine

  • Genie

  • Jafar

  • Baba (the Sultan)

  • Dalia

  • Prince Anders

  • Hakim

  • Lago (Jafar’s parrot)

  • Abu (Aladdin’s monkey)

  • Razoul (royal guard)

  • The Carpet (a voiceless character)


Setting:

The movie happened in the Arabian city of Agrabah. This place is a gleaming and prosperous Arabian desert country, currently ruled by a gracious Sultan and his daughter, Princess Jasmine.


Theme:

The complexity of human interactions is this film's central theme. The film depicted Aladdin's struggles with love and life, the Agrabah Sultan's throne, Jasmine's ambition to rule as Sultan, the Genie's yearning to be freed from Cruse and become a human, and Jaffar's ambition to rule as Sultan of the Agrabah and conquer Sherabad's realm. Frustration delights, and joys of human connections, love, friendship, and family interaction were all shown. Aside from that, social problems have been highlighted in the movie as well. At the start of the movie, female thieves attempted to steal Aladdin's possessions. Aladdin likes to steal to survive, and there were many hungry children. People did not care about one another, and even Princess Jasmine, a member of the royal family, saw how children were starving amid delicious food. In addition, there was a disparity in income in the city of Agrabah. Jafar, who was blinded by power, longed to be a sultan despite having no royal lineage and a burning thirst for vengeance in his heart.


Conflict:

Two conflicts took place in the musical movie Aladdin. The first one was man vs. himself. This was where Aladdin was struggling to accept who he is as a person. He was battling against his thoughts to free his friend as he promised or not for him to be able to maintain his character. The next conflict was man vs. man, which is mostly present in the movie. This was when Aladdin had a conflict with Jafar, the antagonist of the movie.


Plot:


  • Exposition

Princess Jasmine has snuck away from her sheltered existence in the palace and meets Aladdin, an orphaned street urchin in the Arabian city of Agrabah, and his monkey Abu. Jasmine desires to succeed her father as Sultan, but she is expected to marry one of her royal suitors, including Prince Anders, who is charming but dimwitted. The Sultan's grand vizier, Jafar, plots to depose him and seeks a magical lamp concealed in the Cave of Wonders, but only "the diamond in the rough" is allowed to enter.


  • Rising Action

Lago, Jafar's pet parrot, notices Aladdin and Abu entering the royal palace and paying a visit to Jasmine. Jafar captures Aladdin and tricked him to make him wealthy in exchange for retrieving the lamp. However, Jafar kicked Aladdin and Abu when the cave collapses but Abu gets the lamp back. Aladdin is trapped in the cave and accidentally summons the omnipotent Genie inside, who reveals that he has the power to give Aladdin three wishes. He uses his official first wish to become a prince to court Jasmine Aladdin arrives in Agrabah as "Prince Ali of Ababwa," takes Jasmine on a journey on the magic carpet, and they become friends. He tells her he is a prince who has disguised himself as a peasant to explore Agrabah after being tricked into revealing his true identity.


  • Climax

When Jafar finds Aladdin's true identity, he casts him into the palace moat, knowing that if he lives, it will prove he has the lamp. Aladdin is saved by the Genie, but it costs him his second wish. Aladdin returns to the palace after being saved and destroys Jafar's magical cobra staff, breaking the Sultan's spell and revealing his plot. After then, Jafar is apprehended and imprisoned in the dungeons. Aladdin is permitted to marry Jasmine by the Sultan. Aladdin breaks his pledge to release the Genie, fearing that he will be unable to maintain his character without him. The Genie retreats to his lamp in disappointment dismayed that his master wishes to continue living a falsehood.


  • Falling Action

Lago sets Jafar free, and he snatches the lamp to become Genie's new master. Jasmine informs the palace guards of their true loyalties, turning them against Jafar, and he uses his first wish to become Sultan. Jafar exposes Aladdin, exiles him and Abu to a frozen wasteland, imprisons the palace guards and Jasmine's pet tiger Rajah, and threatens to kill the Sultan and Dalia unless Jasmine agrees to marry him using his second wish to become the world's most powerful sorcerer. At the wedding, Jasmine steals the lamp from Jafar and flees with Aladdin and Abu on the magic carpet, which had been sent behind Jafar's back to rescue them from the freezing wasteland. Aladdin and Jasmine are recaptured and the magic carpet is destroyed after being pursued by Iago, who Jafar briefly converted into a giant, and Jafar employs a thunderstorm and sand twister.


  • Denouement

Aladdin teases Jafar about his inferiority to the Genie, encouraging him to use his final wish to become "the most powerful being in the universe," which the Genie grants, changing Jafar into an even more powerful genie. The Genie confines Jafar inside his lamp, dragging Iago behind him, and sends them to the Cave of Wonders. Genie repairs the magic carpet when Abu retrieves it. Aladdin follows his word and grants Genie his final wish, allowing him to live as a human. The Sultan crowns Jasmine as the next sultana-regent, free of the obligation to marry a prince, and she marries Aladdin. The Genie marries Dalia, and the two start a family and travel the world together, eventually becoming the mariner who begins the film by telling his children the story of Aladdin.


4 Lines that promote Middle East Culture


  1. “My dear, I’m not getting any younger. We must find you a husband.” 

  2. “My dear, you cannot be a sultan..because it has never been done in the 1000th-year history of our kingdom.” 

  3. “Life will be kinder to you, Princess, once you accept these traditions…and understand it’s better for you to be not seen and heard.”

  4. “...because you have to marry a prince.”

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