social pharmacy d-pharm 1st year by Pragati K. Mahajan
Arabian Night Main Story + 3 short story
1.
2.
3. Racism
My brother is a greater King among the kings than I
am, yet this infamy goeth on in his very palace, and
his wife is in love with that filthiest of filthy
slaves(Page 7 : Line 10)
4. Religious
Then he returned grateful thanks to Almighty
Allah, praising Him and blessing Him, and he spent
a most restful night, it having been long since he had
savoured the sweet food of sleep. Next day be broke
his fast heartily and began to recover health and
strength and presently regained excellent condition.
(Page 7 : 2nd paragraph)
5. Anti Family
“...marrying a maiden every night and killing her the
next morning...”
“...he found the Queen, his wife, asleep on his own
carpet embracing with both arms a black cook of
loathsome aspect and foul...”
6. Satanic
“So he drew his scimitar, and cutting the two in four
pieces with a single blow, left them on the carpet...”
“The Jinni...O dame of noblest line, whom I snached away
on thy bride night...prevent me taking thy
maidenhead...O my sweetheart...”
“Of truth this Ifrit bore me off on my bride night, and put
me into a casket and set the casket in a coffer...affixed
seven sttrong padlocks...deposited me on the deep bottom
of the sea...”
7. Sexually explicit
episodes
“where he found the Queen, his wife, asleep on his own
carpet bed embracing with both arms a black cook of
loathsome aspect and foul with kitchen grease and
grime.”
“The lady laughed heartily, and all fell to satisfying their
lusts, and remained so occupied for a couple of hours,
when the white slaves rose up from the handmaidens'
breasts and the blackamoor dismounted from the Queen's
bosom.”
He walked boldly up to her and threw his arms round her
neck while she embraced him as warmly. Then he bussed
her and winding his legs round hers, as a button loop
clasps a button, he threw her and enjoyed her
8. Offensive language
“If such case happen while I am yet within sight of
the city, what will be the doings of this damned
whore during my long absence at my brother's
court?“
9. Violence
he drew his scimitar, and cutting the two in four
pieces with a single blow, left them on the carpet and
returned presently to his camp
I command thee to take my wife and smite her to
death, for she hath broken her plight and her faith."
King Shahryar took brand in hand and, repairing to
the seraglio, slew all the concubines and their
Mamelukes.
11. Violence
“and at the bottom of the chest they came upon a
young lady, fair as a silver ingot, slain and cut into
nineteen pieces.“
“I will hang thee at the gate of my palace, thee and
forty of thy kith and kin by thy side.”
12. Racism
“a great ugly black slave, long as a lance and broad
as a bench, passed by my shop “
13. Religious
“So Allah upon thee, O Commander of the
Faithful, make haste to hang me, as I fear lest she
appeal for vengeance on Resurrection Day”
“By Allah, I will not leave my house during the three
days of life which remain to me, and let the Truth
(whose perfection be praised!) do e'en as He will”
15. Religious
“... The people followed us and cried out, saying, „This is
not allowed of Allah!... Have pity on him, let him go, so
Allah have pity on you!‟...” Page 128 (Collins Classics)
“... Circuit about the Holy House.. A man hold of the
covering of the Ka‟abah and cried out,... „ I beseech thee,
O Allah,...” Page 127 (Collins Classics)
16. Anti Family
“Then she added, „If, however, my husband return yet
again to the cookmaid and lie with her, I will restore
thee to thy lost place in my favours.‟ Now when I heard
these words...” Page 131 (Collins Classics)
17. “So I came out from her and came hither, that I might
pray Allah to make her husband return to the
cookmaid, that haply I might be again admitted to her
favours.” Page 132 (Collins Classics)
“I beseech thee, O Allah, that she may once again be
worth with her husband and that I may know her.” Page
127 (Collins Classics)
18. Topic unsuitable for the
targeted age group.
“... one of the damsel to spread us a bed in such a
place...she rose and took my hand and led me thither
and lay down and I lay with her till the morning...often
pressed her to my breast...perfumes that exhaled from
her...in Paradise...” Page 129 (Collins Classics)
19.
“...after which I again lay with her all night. On the
morrow, she gave me a second kerchief, with other
fifty dinars therein...” page 130 (Collins Classics)
21. Anti Family Themes &Unsuitable
For Targeted Age Gap
Now she happened to have in the house a pair of
fatted ganders and she also had a lover whom she
kept in the background.
I will slaughter them and stuff them and thou shalt
take them and carry them home with thee and eat
them, nor shall this pimp my husband taste them or
even smell them.
22. Offensive Language
Verily my husband hath not brought thee hither save
with the intention of cutting off thy precious stones
the honours of thy yard of gelding thee to a Castrato.
„This one speaketh of my testicles, meaning that he
will take only one of my stones and leave me the
other.‟