Arabian Nights has many stories, which show women being evil and treacherous, or being perfect and kind. Scheherazade, The Young King of the Black Isles, and The Enchanted Horse all have good examples of this. It seems that most Arabs, of the time these stories were written, believe that women are completely bad or completely good.
             "Scheherazade" shows this pattern very well. There are both evil and perfect women. The brothers' wives both cheat on their husbands. The King of Tartary finds his wife cheating on her on page 2. "...He found her trafficking with his enemies for his betrayal." The Sultan's brother finds the Sultana betraying her husband on page 3. "...The prince heard her hold treasonable conversation with some of her companies." These women are both horrible, but Scherazade is the complete opposite. She is described on page 8.
             "...Possessed with courage, wit and penetration infinitely above her sex. She had read much, and had so admirable a memory that she never forgot anything she had read. She had successfully applied herself to philosophy, medicine, history and the liberal arts; and her poetry excelled composition of the best writers of her time. Besides this, she was perfect beauty and all her accomplishments were crowned by surpassing virtue."
             Scheherazade" is a great story, which fits the pattern perfectly.
             The story "The Young King of the Black Isles" shows women who is terrible and takes advantage of her husband. The Queen does a number of things to the Sultan. An example of this is on page 48. "...She mixes every evening in his liquor the juice of an herb, which makes him sleep so sound all night that she has time to go where she pleases, and as day begins to appear, she comes and lies down by him again and wakes him by the smell of something she puts under his nostrils." While he sleeps she goes out ...