2007-05-20 12:10:32 · 5 answers · asked by Giggly Giraffe 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I would think it would be self-evident that the genie wouldn't grant unlimited wishes if he could be free of his master once three were granted. (How many times a day can he be called out of the shower before it got too annoying?)
Bringing back someone from the dead would be gross because nothing was said about restoring the person (The Monkey's Paw covered that.) And what if the dead was restored? Would they live happily ever after or would the undead find someone else?
Making someone fall in love would be to imprison that person, or make her a slave. The genie would have every smpathy in the world for that person and wouldn't do it.
2007-05-21 05:55:26 · answer #1 · answered by Jess 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any decent fantasy story must have limits, otherwise it becomes a self-indulgent daydream. The three-wish combination has been a staple, as it provides an opportunity to highlight the foolishness of a desire whose consequences have not been thought through. Wish one is invariably a disaster, wish two is a recovery wish, either successful or aggravatingly worse, and wish three is either a truly wise wish or a moral lesson for the previous failures.
Bringing people back from the dead is a similar taboo. If no one is ever permanently unavailable, then the protagonist never learns to become self-reliant. He'll simply resuscitate the desired person and make the problem vanish rather than overcome the loss through character development.
Love cannot be forced simply because of the nature of love, which can only be an act of free will. To cause someone to go through the motions of love is to reduce that person to a puppet capable only of mimicking the appearances of love, but unable to either self-sacrifice or desire the wellbeing of a partner.
Without limitations on the fantasy, you have a boring story with no dramatic tension or character growth.
2007-05-20 12:58:02 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
and also .... can't kill anyone... if you mean the Disney version.
Unlimited wishes: (I know that is what Aladin now has after setting the Genie free, but 3 wishes are a blessing. Unlimited wishes leads to tyrany and dictatorships
Bringing back the Dead: They may be happy where they are ... or not. But if you can't have an extra bit of life with someone who passed away you'd need to live with no regrets now
Love: It would be one sided and not consider the other person's right to their own happiness.
Kill: If the wisher kills, he goes to jail for Life ... 20-25 years. A life sentence for a Genie would be older than the pyramids.
2007-05-20 13:05:46 · answer #3 · answered by wizebloke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unlimited wishes would stop the genie from ever being able to assist anyone else, not fair really, is it?
Bringing back someone from the dead would be contradictory to nature and the cycles of life, a soul moves on after death, you can't drag it back to the body, how cruel!
Love can never be induced by magic/magick, only the impression of love, which is more commonly associated with lust can be created by magick.
2007-05-20 12:22:19 · answer #4 · answered by Taliesin Pen Beirdd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The writers of the script.
2007-05-20 12:18:01 · answer #5 · answered by David 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋