Name: Yhazmin Iris I.

Pedrozo Section: STEM E12I

Literary Elements Matrix

Story Character Setting Plot Conflict Theme

The story
revolves
Scheherazad
around a man
e
who is unable
A 35-year-old
to leave his
full-time
home for
housewife
mysterious
with 2
reasons. He
children and a
was visited
partner who is
by
a typical
Scheherazade
businessman. Man vs.
Haruki , a woman he Obsession,
She was very Tokyo at himself
Murakami’s had hired to Sexual,
gifted at Habara’s
“Scheherazade look after his Human desire
telling stories. House Man vs.
” sexual and Love.
Anyone who destiny
demands and
hears it will
bring him
be touched.
food and
other
Nobutaka
supplies. She
Habara
would give
Scheherazade
Habara a
tells a story to
gripping story
a man who is
after each
housebound.
time they
have sex.
Scheherazad The Middle Shahryar was Man vs. Destiny and
“One e East at the the king of himself Fate
Thousand and A charming, king’s palace Persia, a vast
One Nights/ intelligent, empire, but Man vs.
Arabian and smart his adulterous destiny
Nights” young woman wife hated
with the him. Every
ability of day, the king
storytelling, chose a new
weaving woman to
spiritual and marry, only
 to murder her
the next
morning.
Many
innocent
ladies died
moral truths until
into her Scheherazade
stories. (the daughter
of the king's
King advisor) came
Shahryar forward and
He leads a offered to
kingdom and marry the
begins the king. Despite
habit of the fact that
marrying both the king
women and and the
murdering advisor
them the next oppose, she
day until persists, even
Scheherazade if she knows
appears and it will be her
tells him last night.
stories every That night,
night, and the though, she
practice ends. requests her
sister's
company and
relates dozens
of stories that
keep her
alive.
How is Intertextuality was demonstrated by combining some distinct characteristics of
Intertextuality two different texts. From Arabian Nights Scheherazade to Scheherazade of
seen in Scheherazade. They both had a flair for telling stories, and no matter what kind
Murakami’s of narrative they told, they made it so exceptional that anybody who listened
contemporary was touched. Despite the fact that both women's ultimate goals are different,
short story? someone else, as Scheherazade of the Arabian Nights is a woman who brings
(*Answers should be Habara supplies, foods, and also attends to his sexual desires, wherein the after
brief and concise and they had sex, she always left him a strange and gripping story; also, Habara sees
not more than 5
sentences.) his attendant as Scheherazade, so that's why she was named after her; as well,
Habara can see his attendant as Scheherazade, and this is why she was decided
to name after her. Furthermore, the similarities between Habara and the King of
Persia could be noticed at the conclusion of the story, in which they both felt a
connection and grew more devoted to both ladies as their stories came to a
close.