The Arabian Nights was praised by Gorky as "the most magnificent monument" in folk oral creation. Rich imagination and rich legends are the most prominent artistic features of Arabian Nights. The structure of continuous pregnancy is unique; Being good at portraying characters through comparison and typical narrative style is also a remarkable feature of Arabian Nights.
Arabian Nights is the crystallization of Arab people's artistic talent and creativity, which has the following four characteristics. Romantic expression, rich imagination and almost absurd exaggerated description are the most obvious artistic features of Arabian Nights.
First, a strong romantic color. The author of Arabian Nights freely spreads the wings of imagination and fantasy: the omnipotent magic lamp and the Lord of the Rings; A palace built overnight; Flying carpets inside and outside the palace; A flying black horse; Fish as big as an island; A headscarf that can be invisible; A crutch that can exorcise ghosts; You can see the clairvoyance of any distant target and so on. These magical things are the crystallization of the wisdom of working people, expressing people's enterprising spirit of exploring nature, transforming society and defeating evil forces. At the same time, many stories in Arabian Nights also combine the fantasy of good wishes with the authenticity of reality wonderfully, so that romanticism and realism complement each other and produce fascinating artistic effects.
Second, the plot twists and turns bizarre, flexible and simple structure. Sometimes the story is in the sky, sometimes in the world; Sometimes with the help of gods and demons, sometimes completely following the logic of reality. A monster "bigger than a mountain" can go in and out of a small copper bottle in the shape of a gallbladder; With the magic lamp, it can build a magnificent palace overnight ... so unpredictable. The structure of Arabian Nights is ingenious, concise and flexible, creating an artistic structure form of "frame structure". The work is in the form of Scheherazade's "Telling the King", and more than 260 stories are embedded in the framework of this big story. A big story sets a small story, and the big and small stories are intertwined to form a huge story system, which makes people feel long but not redundant, miscellaneous but not chaotic, well organized and well organized, like a string of long beads, which makes people feel happy.
Third, sharp contrast. In the story, the goodness, evil, beauty and ugliness of many characters are particularly striking, forming a sharp contrast. For example, an honest and astute fisherman and a vicious and cunning devil in The Fisherman's Tale, a god of death and a cruel king who embody the people's will in The Story of Death, a wealthy businessman and a poor porter, and a witty Marci Na and a stupid robber in Alibaba and the Forty Thieves. They all highlight their own personality characteristics through comparison. The contrast is full of the author's thoughts, love and hate.
Fourthly, the language is rich, simple, fluent, natural and vivid, full of poetry and painting, which well reflects the true colors of folk literature. A Thousand and One Nights uses a wide range of rhetorical devices such as symbolism, metaphor, humor and satire. Some stories are also inserted with aphorisms, aphorisms, proverbs, short poems and so on. It constitutes the colorful features of language and greatly enhances the artistic appeal.