Word: sharyar
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According to the legend, two brothers. Sharyar and Shah Zaman, who reign over adjoining kingdoms, discover their wives infidelity and vow that, in retaliation, each will rape a virgin every night and have her killed in the morning. Sharyar's kingdom soon deteriorates as parents flee the country with their daughters. At last, Scheherazade, a local visor's eldest daughter, announces to her father that she has a plan to end the King's murders and he, therefore, must present her to him that night as the virgin...
Sherry goes to Sharyar's harem and begs him to allow Doony to accompany her, as they have not been separated from birth. At a tense moment in the long night Doony asks Sherry to tell one of her wonderful stories. By morning the story is still unfinished, so the king stays her execution until he can hear the end. This same procedure is repeated for 1001 nights with Doony sitting at the foot...
This argument fits into the broader theme of the play: can men and women live together as equals? Once the 1001st tale has been told, Sherry is forced to ask for forgiveness and Sharyar renounces his vow and proclaims her the "saviour of your sex" and proposes marriage...
...their wedding night Sherry graciously thanks Sharyar in an entrancingly sarcastic tone for marrying her after 1001 nights of making love and after having his three kids, and asks to see her sister. When the wish is granted, she asks Doony "What are they [women] saved for? The patriarchy still remains...there's no victory only unequal retaliation...
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