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Similarities and Comparison Essay In Colston's school, year eleven has recently performed the play 'Arabian Nights', in which I played the roles of a sleeper, an envious sister, a forbidding voice, a little girl and a narrator. In the following essay, I am going to compare the differences and similarities between 'Arabian Nights' and the well known Shakespearean tragedy, 'Macbeth', which we studied earlier this year. Firstly, both 'Macbeth' and 'Arabian Nights' are set in very different places in different periods of time. 'Macbeth' was set in the 12th Century in Scotland where as 'Arabian Nights' was set in 1000 BC in the middle-east. In both plays, the leading man is influenced in some way by a woman. Whilst Macbeth is tricked into committing acts of wickedness by his wife, and manipulated into the cruel and brutal murder of the king, The King in 'Arabian Nights' is changed by Scheherazade's enchanting...

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