The Lady and Her Five Suitors ( Mimetic Approach)

The Lady and Her Five Suitors

By: Arabian Knights

SUMMARY:

                    The lady and her five suitors by the Arabian knights is all about a lady who lost her husband. Her husband went on a trip one day but never did he return. So the lady then decided to find or fall in love again for the second time. But unfortunately her lover was sent o jail. She went to the four most powerful person or men in that land, namely; Kazi, Wali, Wazir, and King.

                    But as he approach those four men they each ask for a trade in order for them to make a way to release her lover. The trade is for her to spend a day with these men. But the lady was to clever. She thought of way on how to get rid of this suitors.  After a deliberate thinking, she then asked a carpenter to make a cabinet with five compartments. One by one as the suitors arrived, she would give them clothes and foods. And then if someone knocks on the door, she would pretend that it was her husband.  So she acts as if she is restless. And then suitors would hide in the cabinet for they fear it was her husband. After which the carpenter arrived having a little argument against  the lady. She then pushed her in the fifth cabinet and locked it.

                      She then went to the jail with the release note made by the king. After that they left town together and stow away , leaving the suitors, and the carpenter trapped in the cabinet. After many days the content of the cabinet was set free by the neighbors. They were recognized because of their  clothes.

ANALYSIS:

                     Though scenes in the story is somewhat fictional, it still depicts the truth happening in our society. Especially the truth that some ladies or women nowadays settle for being a prostitute in order for their needs to be satisfied. Though we think that what we are doing is good because our intention is true, fact still remains that to other people it is not moral.

                         Also the lady being clever reflects people today that we need to be strategic in dealing things. Not settling for one option only but for many selection. She thought of ways on how to get out of the deal without her being touched. This just manifest or shows  how a person can be clever when she is in a desperate state.