Aladdin and the marvellous lamp

Complete summary and alternatives

An young man, poor and without resources, Aladdin (or Zakaria), is taken as disciple by a Master who has magic capacities. This Master, at the end of a long voyage, asks him to go to seek a lamp, while entrusting to him for that a minor magic object. But Aladin prefers to preserve the lamp for itself: the Master then gives up it in darkness of the cave where the lamp lay, and leaves. But the lamp is haunted by a great genius…

In his most popular alternative, Aladin manages to control the capacities of the lamp and becomes thus rich and powerful. But its malicious Master then tries to recover the lamp (in particular by exploiting the ignorance of the woman of Aladdin, which yields the lamp for babioles): Aladdin must again show his capacities to recover the lamp, and finally to triumph.

There exists nevertheless an alternative (as the candlestick with the seven dervishes ) where Aladin does not manage to control the lamp, and, after a new attempt to still mislead its Master (however good), it is punished of its silly thing and its ingratitude by losing all.

Interpretation

The tale is strewn with Métaphore S: the lamp (and of the magic capacities of the Master) for knowledge, the voyage being long studies, and the dark cave ignorance. The two alternatives then seem two possible exits of the training: according to whether Aladin controls or not knowledge which it had the occasion to learn, it will be able to be played of its Master or on the contrary all to lose.

Other interpretations are possible.

This tale (in its alternative more gratifiante for Aladdin) was adapted to the cinema, in video… on several occasions.

Adaptations

1934: Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp , title of a cartoon film of the Company Ub Iwerks;
1959: Adventures of Aladdin , American feature-length film of animation
1969: Aladdin and the marvellous lamp a cartoon film of France.
1982: Aladdin and the Marvellous Lamp , title of a cartoon film of the Tôei Company. Titrate original: Sekai Meisaku Douwa - Aladdin to Mahou No Lamp;
1989: Aladdin' S Magic Lamp , a Video game of the type Shot them up of New-Line;
1992: Aladdin (Disney) , title of a cartoon film of Walt Disney Company;
1993: Aladdin (Virgin) , Video game of platform, directed by David Perry, left on Megadrive, Amiga and DOS, drawn from film;
1993: Aladdin (Capcom) , Video game of platform on Super Nintendo, drawn from film.
1994: Aladdin (series) , animated series drawn from film;
1994: Aladdin (Disney Software) , Video game of platform on Master System, drawn from film;

The famous tale the lighter of Hans Christian Andersen is an adaptation of this history.

Anecdote: References

One finds references to the Genius of marvellous lamp of Aladdin in the titles of the songs of Christina Aguilera: Genie in has Bottle and of Eddy-K: El genio of will lampara .

See too

List of imaginary objects

External bond

Cartoon film " Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp" (1934) in its original version on the site of Internet Files.

Simple: Aladdin

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