-go into more detail about how the sultan's first wife betrayed/deceived him
-he at first ordered all women in the land to be killed ...but shortly his grand vizir reminded him that their people would die off with no women to produce children
-so he settled on marrying a new woman and killing her the next day to quench his need to revenge
-the grand vizir thought the sultan might just end this horrific policy when he offered his own daughter because of how faithful he had been in all his time with the sultan but that was not the case
-Dinarzade saw helping her sister as a chance to liberate all the women who lived in fear of becoming the sultan's next wife
-Dinarzade also wanted to prove to her father that she was worth something because he had always favored Scheherazade over her
The Merchant and the Genius:
-Scheherazade and Dinarzade continue in their plot to save Scheherazade's life
-each story she tells she adds a cliffhanger so that the sultan is curious as to the ending and won't kill her
-her father has more anxiety the longer this is drawn out and the longer his two daughters remain in the chamber of a murderer
-the sisters contrive stories each day and then at night time they are told to the sultan with the dramatic flair that Scheherazade gives that draws the sultan in
-they eventually convince him into recanting his order for a new bride because he falls in love with Scheherazade and also because she foretells of the peril that will fall upon him if he continues and he believes her
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