We trust you had an enjoyable journey.Aladdin · 2019 — Chapter 4 of 24 · 3'38" · B1
Jafar Manipulates the Sultan, Explained: Remember your place
On the surface it's a royal audience: a suitor is rejected, then the court argues about war and succession. Underneath, Jafar is steering. "Remember your place," he is told, and he apologises at once, yet he still gets the Sultan to declare that invading Shirabad is the right thing to do.
What happens
At the palace in Agrabah, Prince Anders asks for Jasmine's hand and is turned down flat. Jafar pushes for war with Shirabad, is sharply rebuked with "Remember your place," then recovers and bends the Sultan toward his view. The Sultan refuses Jasmine the throne, saying it has never been done, and Jafar supplies the argument that books are not experience.
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Remember your placeleft uncheckeddrag us into a warsink into ruin
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Phrase of the scene
Remember your place
认清自己的位置；别忘了自己是谁
贾法尔在议事厅当众顶撞国王、催促出兵，国王用这句话警告他别忘了自己的身份。
He was told to remember his place and stay quiet.
Also in this scene
- left unchecked
被放任不管、不加约束
- drag us into a war
把我们拖进战争
- sink into ruin
陷入衰败、走向破败
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So, why did no one tell me of your beauty?We have the same title, yet are never described the same way.My sultan, our enemies grow stronger every day...allow someone to
yet you allow your daughter to dismiss Prince Anders...You would drag us into a war with our oldest...And you would allow your kingdom to sink into ruin for mere sentiment!Remember your place.I went too far.flap
I went too far.if you would
if you would only reconsider...that invading Shirabad is the right thing to do.elision
Yes, if you consider giving Prince Anders a chance.My dear, I'm not getting any younger.and we are running out of kingdoms. (CHUCKLES)What foreign prince could care for our people as I do?I could lead if only...liaison
I could lead if only...present perfect passive
because it has never been donepresent perfect continuous
I have been preparing for this my whole life. I have read...Books? But you cannot read experience.People left unchecked will revolt.Jafar Manipulates the Sultan, explained
What's really going on
Everyone is playing for position. The suitor is dismissed because Jasmine won't be traded like a treaty, but the real contest is happening around the Sultan. Jafar overreaches, hears "Remember your place," apologises at once, and then does exactly what the rebuke was meant to stop, nudging the Sultan into his own war. The succession line is the film's central wound: "My dear, you cannot be a sultan... because it has never been done." Tradition is offered as an argument, and Jafar sharpens it into contempt for learning, insisting that experience cannot be read out of books. By the end he has turned policy and inheritance into the same fight, and the Sultan, tired and unwell, lets him set the terms.
Theme
PowerJafar loses one exchange but keeps steering, quietly taking control of the Sultan's decisions.
GenerationsJasmine is blocked from the throne because it has never been done, an argument about custom, not ability.
Listen for
- went too far — flap
- giving Prince Anders — elision
- if only — liaison
We have the same title, yet are never described the same way.A dry reply from the princess: she and the visiting prince share a rank, but only one of them is ever talked about as a prize.
People left unchecked will revolt.Jafar's case for firm rule: without control, ordinary people will rise up, so harshness is dressed up as necessity.
My dear, you cannot be a sultan...The Sultan's refusal, softened by affection: he is not saying she is unfit, only that the position has never gone to a woman.
Walls and borders unguarded will be attacked.Another argument for vigilance: what is not defended invites attack, used here to make aggression sound like prudence.
What foreign prince could care for our people as I do?Jasmine's objection to marriage as policy: a stranger could never love her people the way someone raised among them would.
Questions about this scene
Why does Jasmine refuse Prince Anders?
She won't be handed off as a diplomatic prize. He arrives as a suitor and speaks to her like an ornament, so she answers with the same mock courtesy and sends him away.
Why can't Jasmine be sultan?
The Sultan says the law and custom have never allowed it, not that she is incapable. It's an argument from tradition, which is exactly what she is trying to overturn.
Does Jafar actually want a war with Shirabad?
He wants the Sultan dependent on him. The war is a means of gaining influence, and when he is rebuked he simply changes tack and gets the Sultan to reach the conclusion himself.
What does "left unchecked" mean here?
It means left without control. Jafar applies it to people and borders to argue that any slack invites revolt or attack, a line that sounds like common sense but serves his ambition.
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Chapter 17under a spellJasmine Exposes Jafar
Chapter 18live a lieGenie Confronts Aladdin's Lie
Chapter 19seen and not heardJafar Seizes the Sultan's Throne
Chapter 20written in stoneJasmine Turns Hakim Against Jafar
Chapter 21the ends of the earthJafar Exposes Aladdin
Chapter 22nothing withoutJasmine Grabs the Lamp
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