Jafar and the Magic Lamp:
Jafar was always the outcast in Agrabah, with his curly beard, his villainous-looking attire that his mother had picked out from the dollar store; but he was not a villain at all, he just wanted to help his mother. His mother was a servant in the royal palace, given scraps from the kitchen, getting slapped and shoved all around the kingdom. She would come home starving with bruises on every inch of her limbs. His mother would always tell Jafar stories about a magical lamp and a genie that grants people three wishes. Jafar always knew that the magic lamp was hidden away in the cave of wonder which is in the middle of a desert. It was a very secure cave, only some are able to get in and retrieve the magic lamp, someone who is sneaky, agile and someone who can be hidden in plain sight, but there was no luck. Till one day, Jafar saw a strange young boy with a sneaky little pet monkey stealing bread and apples from the poor for his own purposes along the streets of the kingdom. Jafar knew then and there that he was the key to retrieve the lamp for him. Jafar needed to hatch a plan, to get Aladdin to retrieve the magic lamp from the desert. He decided that capturing would have been the best option. He knew that Aladdin would not give himself up so easily.
Jafar’s plan was successful, he captured Aladdin to help him retrieve the magic lamp from the cave of wonders. Little did he know that Aladdin was not only going into the cave for Jafar, he only wanted to go in to retrieve the lamp for his own purpose. Aladdin wanted to make his own three wishes so that he could become king and marry the beautiful princess. That is what Jafar did not see coming. Aladdin rubbed the magic lamp that was buried in the mass amount of gold, which then a powerful and mighty genie appeared from the lamp. His power was only strong for those who wanted wishes to be granted. Aladdin did not wish to give the magic lamp to Jafar as he wanted to keep the lamp to himself. Jafar knew at that specific moment that all of his hard work would have been done for nothing. Jafar had to result in his last solution by stealing the lamp so that he could become king and save his mother from abuse from the royal palace.
Jafar felt betrayed by his fellow ally and decided to bring Princess Jasmine as his little servant. Jafar has everything he needs to request for his wishes from the all-mighty genie. Jafar’s hard work for many years may finally pay off. His desire to become King and to allow his mother to live a peaceful life. Seconds before Jafar makes his wish, Aladdin comes in with a pocket watch in his back pocket. Aladdin rushed towards Jafar and held the pocket watch in front of Jafar’s eyes as it swung back and forth. Aladdin whispered into Jafar’s ears that “You will want to become a genie and not a King, and you will accept being trapped in a lamp forever.” Jafar’s face went blank, no emotions were visible from that moment onwards. Jafar then rubbed the lamp and told the genie that he wanted to become the most powerful genie in the world. Once Jafar wished for what he truly desired, Jafar came back to life. He was able to think straight again and begged the genie to stop his wish from coming true. Jafar fell to his knees in front of the genie but it was too late to redo the wish. Jafar turned into the most powerful genie in the world but remained trapped in another lamp while Aladdin lived his dream life happily with his wife Jasmine and his abused servant, Jafar’s mother.