To do this, the methodology of the paper follows from a philosophical reading that subjectivizes the protagonist into the question of ethics. This problematizing essentially entails a critique of the Westernized moral figure and its basic 'universal lesson' in the text to argue his being immoral. It problematizes the figure of Aladdin and rebrands him as an immoral ethicist as opposed to the Disney hero who seeks strength within himself and the other text versions of him as a 'changed' man.
This study delves into the tale Aladdin and the Magic Lamp as the excerpt of the Middle Eastern folk tales collection One Thousand and One Nights rather than the popular Disney version.
