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The Sheik

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The Sheik	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Sheik is a (by modern standards) rather horrifying novel written in 1919 by a woman named Edith Maude "E.M." Hull. A rather less horrifying movie was made in 1921, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, directed by George Melford.Diana Mayo, an independent, strong-willed young English noblewoman, undertakes a solo exploratory trip through the desert, only to be captured by Ahmed Ben Hassan, an Arab Sheik. Said Sheik proceeds to rape her on a more or less daily basis for around a month, giving her a (somewhat) accurate case of PTSD.She finally manages to escape, only to get caught and brought back to the camp, and while she's alone in the desert she abruptly realizes she's fallen in love with her captor, which also cures her of her "unnatural" coldness and lack of femininity.Eventually, after she's been kidnapped and rescued, the Sheik realizes he's in love with her too, which makes him want to send her away so he won't hurt her anymore. The only thing that convinces him to allow her to stay is the fact that she tries to shoot herself in the head.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The Valentino movie, his follow-up to his Star-Making Role in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, was another hit, confirming his status as a star. It's probably the role he's best remembered for today. In 1926 it spawned a Sequel, The Son of the Sheik, in which Valentino played both an older Ahmed and Ahmed's grown son. That was Valentino's last film before his premature death from a perforated ulcer.The book is in the public domain and can be read here.Not related to Sheik at all, or to The (original) Sheik or The Iron Sheik.
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The Sheik / int_1036c075	type	Forceful Kiss
The Sheik / int_1036c075	comment	Forceful Kiss: Ahmed does this to Diana multiple times.
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The Sheik / int_121865ac	type	Noble Savage
The Sheik / int_121865ac	comment	Noble Savage: The Sheik, both figuratively and literally. He's an English noble, and happens to be slightly more civil that his Arabian neighbors.
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The Sheik / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
The Sheik / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: In the movie, Ahmed's servant is shot in the chest, but is still alive when Ahmed arrives, and able to tell Ahmed that Omair took Diana. Not a drop of blood is visible.
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The Sheik / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Sheik / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured/Cultured Warrior: Diana's initial impression of the Sheik after her abduction and rape. She sees that he is multilingual and has an extensive library of French literature in his home.
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The Sheik / int_24115bb4	type	Pass Fail
The Sheik / int_24115bb4	comment	Pass Fail: Sort of. The Reveal is that the Sheik isn't actually Arab at all, but is so disgusted by his English heritage he'd rather pretend he was an Arab.
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The Sheik / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
The Sheik / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Diana eventually warms up to the Sheik, although in the book he has to rape her to make it happen.
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The Sheik / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Sheik / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: The Sheik's mother leaves his father because he's an abusive drunk, then dies when he's two years old, leaving him the adopted heir to the former Sheik.
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The Sheik / int_2a0c7188	type	Women Are Delicate
The Sheik / int_2a0c7188	comment	Women Are Delicate: A bilateral example. Diana is shown to be tough even compared to many of the men in the book, but the Sheik and his servants show her just how wide the power divide between the sexes can get.
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The Sheik / int_2a973d16	type	Women Prefer Strong Men
The Sheik / int_2a973d16	comment	Women Prefer Strong Men: Diana does, at the very least.
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The Sheik / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
The Sheik / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: Though the book was written in English, most of the characters are speaking French throughout the book, including Diana, the Sheik, and his friend/manservant Gaston. French words tend to randomly pepper the text.
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The Sheik / int_328b32	type	Unequal Pairing
The Sheik / int_328b32	comment	Unequal Pairing: In spades. The Sheik controls everything basically everything in the relationship except for the thoughts in Diana's head.
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The Sheik / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
The Sheik / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: In the novel, Diana becomes this to the Sheik. The relationship is eventually upgraded.
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The Sheik / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
The Sheik / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Diana feels this way at the beginning of the story; considering nearly every man in the book was in love with her and she regularly had to give Better as Friends speeches to her unlucky childhood friends, it's not surprising in the least. In the movie she explicitly says that beauty forces women to be the targets of men.
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The Sheik / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
The Sheik / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: The Sheik isn't an Arab by birth. Also, Diana chooses to stay in the desert with Ahmed.
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The Sheik / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Sheik / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In the movie, Ahmed doesn't go through with raping Diana. Also, in the movie she is special to him from the start (the serving girl, for instance, refers to her as Ahmed's bride), while in the book, she is explicitly stated to be just one of many mistresses and he says it outright he'll only keep her until he gets tired of her (and he remains of that opinion until the climax).
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The Sheik / int_40217655	type	Faux Action Girl
The Sheik / int_40217655	comment	Faux Action Girl: Diana, who can supposedly ride and shoot and otherwise hold her own in a brawl, appears to only actually be able to ride a horse. (She does take part in a shootout at the end of the film.) This contrasts the book, in which she demonstrates all of the skills she's said to have.
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The Sheik / int_4067bd4d	type	Spirited Young Lady
The Sheik / int_4067bd4d	comment	Spirited Young Lady: Diana Mayo is this trope, exactly. She thrives on excitement and adventure, and travels the world whenever and however she wants to without a care in the world for the socially accepted limits of femininity. On one such venture, she goes into the Arabian desert alone with only hired locals as her protection; it's this event that causes her to encounter the Sheik, who after capturing her, quickly molds her into another trope altogether through his brutality.
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The Sheik / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
The Sheik / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Diana turns into one of these.
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The Sheik / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
The Sheik / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: The Sheik.
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The Sheik / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Sheik / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The book is utterly filled with lengthy, flowery descriptions of the various environments.
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The Sheik / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Sheik / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: The original point behind the Sheik's abduction and rape of Diana.
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The Sheik / int_4b8932a4	type	Stalking Is Love
The Sheik / int_4b8932a4	comment	Stalking Is Love: Ahmed breaks into Diana's hotel room in town before he winds up kidnapping her. Theirs is the big romance.
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The Sheik / int_5312637f	type	Tomboy with a Girly Streak
The Sheik / int_5312637f	comment	Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Diana Mayo loves adventure, horseback riding, fox hunting, and camping. She also appreciates a pretty dress.
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The Sheik / int_548abd8c	type	Not Like Other Girls
The Sheik / int_548abd8c	comment	Not Like Other Girls: Being that Diana was raised as a boy by her older brother, this was bound to happen. The difference between her and other women is also what wins over the Sheik in the book; he found his previous women boring once they'd stopped resisting, while Diana was much more determined and resourceful than they had been.
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The Sheik / int_5bc1ce14	type	Author Vocabulary Calendar
The Sheik / int_5bc1ce14	comment	Author Vocabulary Calendar: Take a shot every time you run across the words "boyish", "savage", "slim", "brutal", and "mutinous".
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The Sheik / int_5dc04c4e	type	Brownface
The Sheik / int_5dc04c4e	comment	Brownface: All of the Arabs in the film are played by American actors.
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The Sheik / int_65fcc287	type	Lima Syndrome
The Sheik / int_65fcc287	comment	Lima Syndrome: The Sheik winds up with this for Diana. After he's tortured her for around four months, he starts wondering why her pain gives him no satisfaction. "Guilt" isn't a word that figures into his vocabulary until much later.
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The Sheik / int_6849cc47	type	Where da White Women At?
The Sheik / int_6849cc47	comment	Where da White Women At?: Omair the evil (well, more evil) sheik makes no bones about wanting Diana because she's a white girl.
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The Sheik / int_6924443d	type	Girliness Upgrade
The Sheik / int_6924443d	comment	Girliness Upgrade: This trope is forced on Diana by the Sheik.
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The Sheik / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
The Sheik / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: Especially towards the second half of the book.
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The Sheik / int_6a697d7a	type	The Power of Lust
The Sheik / int_6a697d7a	comment	The Power of Lust: The Sheik's motivation to kidnap Diana was entirely sexual, and it was powerful enough for him to plan very far ahead to do so, arranging each meticulous detail that led to her capture.
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The Sheik / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Sheik / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Even by the standards of silent film acting, the wide-eyed, carnivorous gazes that Valentino directs at Agnes Ayres stand out. This is a huge contrast to his portrayal in the book, which portrays him as a Soft-Spoken Sadist until he goes into an insufferable rage at the drop of a hat. A more accurate-to-the-book portrayal would have been a Cold Ham.
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The Sheik / int_8591611a	type	Shameful Strip
The Sheik / int_8591611a	comment	Shameful Strip: In the book, the Sheik tells Diana to Slip into Something More Comfortable shortly after her capture. When she fails to do so in a timely fashion, he does this to her off page.
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The Sheik / int_87d70f73	type	Reluctant Fanservice Girl
The Sheik / int_87d70f73	comment	Reluctant Fanservice Girl: The Sheik has a way of getting Diana out of her clothes.
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The Sheik / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Sheik / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: He's a rapist with a devilish temper who kidnaps Diana and subjects her to ongoing physical and psychological abuse, but he's not the antagonist. The antagonist is Diana herself - more specifically, the ideas instilled into her through her upbringing as a boy and subsequent freewheeling adult life.
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The Sheik / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
The Sheik / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: The Sheik's entire motivation for kidnapping Diana was the fact that he'd seen her for about five minutes in the nearby city and thought she was hot. He sneaks into her room at night to replace the bullets in her gun with blanks, then pays her guides to lead her right to him, following her caravan the entire time.
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The Sheik / int_8f7059b	type	A Match Made in Stockholm
The Sheik / int_8f7059b	comment	A Match Made in Stockholm: The entire story is this trope Played for Drama.
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The Sheik / int_912ada71	type	Faux Interracial Relationship
The Sheik / int_912ada71	comment	Faux Interracial Relationship: Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan isn't Arab after all.
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The Sheik / int_944a85ea	type	Raised as the Opposite Gender
The Sheik / int_944a85ea	comment	Raised as the Opposite Gender: The book is explicitly clear that Diana was raised as a boy.
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The Sheik / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Sheik / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: The Sheik eventually comes to regret what he has done to Diana.
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The Sheik / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Sheik / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: The story opens with some expository dialogue between two disapproving old ladies establishing that Diana is going to take a tour of the desert without any men escorting her.
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The Sheik / int_997740c3	type	ExpositionBomb
The Sheik / int_997740c3	comment	Exposition Bomb: The first two paragraphs of the story.
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The Sheik / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
The Sheik / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Aubrey.
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The Sheik / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Sheik / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The Sheik after Raoul has talked some sense into him regarding his abuse of Diana.
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The Sheik / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
The Sheik / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: Though Diana is raped in the book, none of the details are shown to the reader.
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The Sheik / int_a5f998ea	type	Stockholm Syndrome
The Sheik / int_a5f998ea	comment	Stockholm Syndrome: In the movie it has definitely kicked in by the time Diana is doodling "Ahmed I love you" in the sand.
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The Sheik / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Sheik / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The Sheik never pays for what he does for Diana: the worst that happens to him is being called out by his best friend over it, and being injured in a fight with his hereditary enemy. This is likely due to the fact that, from the writer's perspective, the Sheik is not the villain: Diana's upbringing is. According to the writer, the Sheik simply has nothing to pay for.
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The Sheik / int_a8221f1f	type	SpiritualPredecessor
The Sheik / int_a8221f1f	comment	Spiritual Predecessor: For Fifty Shades of Grey and, in turn, 365 Days, the latter of which has a rather similar premise to this novel despite being published nearly a century later.
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The Sheik / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Sheik / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Due to being raised as a boy by Aubrey, Diana's morals and ideals are in direct contrast to the women and men around her. Her ideals contrast even more against the Sheik's, until she learns to yield.
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The Sheik / int_ae4845db	type	Near-Rape Experience
The Sheik / int_ae4845db	comment	Near-Rape Experience: In the movie, the Sheik catches Diana crying and praying in the tent and realizes he can't go through with it. This is averted in the book.
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The Sheik / int_b5b5ba3c	type	Rape Portrayed as Redemption
The Sheik / int_b5b5ba3c	comment	Rape Portrayed as Redemption: This trope is strongly implied in the novel.
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The Sheik / int_b5dded87	type	Gossipy Hens
The Sheik / int_b5dded87	comment	Gossipy Hens: The older British women at the start of The Sheik who do not approve of Diana's "madcap" plan to travel alone in the desert are portrayed this way. As it turns out, they were right to be concerned.
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The Sheik / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Sheik / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: The aged Sheik and Diana in the sequel.
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The Sheik / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
The Sheik / int_bfad4265	comment	I Have You Now, My Pretty: "You are so pretty, and, if I choose, I can make you love me". He's right.
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The Sheik / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
The Sheik / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: When the Sheik tells Diana he is sending her away to make sure he can't hurt her again, she tries to shoot herself in the head with his pistol. This is what convinces him to let her stay with him, though he warns her she might come to regret it.
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The Sheik / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Sheik / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Many of the more disturbing aspects of the novel (namely the rape) are left out of the film. The sequel doesn't leave them out.
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The Sheik / int_ce993654	type	Hollywood Genetics
The Sheik / int_ce993654	comment	Hollywood Genetics: A white English man and a Spanish noblewoman with very distant Moorish ancestry produce a son who can pass for 100% Arab. Since he was raised from birth in a hard life entirely in the open desert, this actually makes sense: he would be very tanned, and his body would have been injured and healed so many times that his English ancestry would be pretty hard to identify from just a look.
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The Sheik / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Sheik / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: The Sheik's French friend Raoul, when he comes to visit the camp, is quite appalled and calls the Sheik out on this, literally saying "This is unworthy of you, Ahmed." Not that this stops him.
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The Sheik / int_d47f35de	type	First Father Wins
The Sheik / int_d47f35de	comment	First Father Wins/Thicker Than Water: Averted with the Sheik's biological father, who was horrible to his wife to the point where she fled from him and eventually died after giving birth to Ahmed. This is one of the few cases in the literature of the time where the abusive husband's eventual change-of-heart does not result in reconciliation; he has to live with the consequences of his actions, including the fact that his son wishes to have nothing to do with him. On being told of his heritage, Ahmed developed a complete hatred for all the English to the point where he refuses to even speak the language, showing reverence only towards his adoptive Arab father. This plot point is dropped in the movie, in which it is revealed that both of Ahmed's parents died after their guide abandoned them in the desert, leaving little Ahmed to be raised by the Arab tribe that found him.
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The Sheik / int_d72a4480	type	Romanticized Abuse
The Sheik / int_d72a4480	comment	Romanticized Abuse: YOU DON'T SAY!?
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The Sheik / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
The Sheik / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: This trope is fully at play in both the film and the book. The book in particular does not gloss over how bad the bad boy is at any time. Instead, it does the exact opposite: the book provides a complete breakdown of exactly what his ceaseless brutality does to her psyche over time.
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The Sheik / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
The Sheik / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: The characters are actually speaking French in the majority of the story, and some French expressions ("Bon dieu!") are peppered in the dialog. The Sheik can actually speak perfect English, but refuses to do so due to his hatred of his biological father.
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The Sheik / int_ebab0a5b	type	Best Her to Bed Her
The Sheik / int_ebab0a5b	comment	Best Her to Bed Her: Diana only falls for the Sheik after he's "tamed" her and basically proved she'll never be as strong as him so she might as well not try. In the book, it plays out more along the lines of "Bed her to best her."
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The Sheik / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
The Sheik / int_ec40626	comment	Love Martyr: Diana becomes this, enduring all the Sheik's physical and emotional abuse yet not wanting to imagine a life without him, and she means it, too.
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The Sheik / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
The Sheik / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: Diana's older brother Aubrey became her guardian after her mother died in childbirth and her father committed suicide. The fact that he raised her as he would a boy is said to contribute to her "unnatural coldness" and lack of feminine feeling.
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The Sheik / int_f829585a	type	Beauty Is Bad
The Sheik / int_f829585a	comment	Beauty Is Bad: The Sheik is repeatedly described as handsome, and he's definitely a bastard.
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The Sheik / int_fd81c335	type	Nurture over Nature
The Sheik / int_fd81c335	comment	Nurture over Nature: Diana grows to love the Sheik more than her former life. In addition, Ahmed Ben Hassan is an English noble by birth. His brutish behavior and his complexion from spending almost his entire life in the desert make it impossible to know this without being told. Diana herself can't imagine him as English, either.
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The Sheik / int_ff16efbf	type	Heroes Want Redheads
The Sheik / int_ff16efbf	comment	Heroes Want Redheads: For a given value of hero, anyway.
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The Sheik	seeAlso	The Sheik
The Sheik	hasFeature	AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions / int_a643c4ee
The Sheik	hasFeature	Acceptable Ethnic Targets / int_a643c4ee
The Sheik	hasFeature	Brownface / int_a643c4ee
The Sheik	hasFeature	Character Perception Evolution / int_a643c4ee
The Sheik	hasFeature	Faux Interracial Relationship / int_a643c4ee
The Sheik	hasFeature	Fetishized Abuser / int_a643c4ee
The Sheik	hasFeature	Hiding Your Heritage / int_a643c4ee
The Sheik	hasFeature	Love Martyr / int_a643c4ee
The Sheik	hasFeature	Moustache de Plume / int_a643c4ee
The Sheik	hasFeature	Pass Fail / int_a643c4ee
The Sheik	hasFeature	Purple Prose / int_a643c4ee
The Sheik	hasFeature	Rape Portrayed as Redemption / int_a643c4ee
The Sheik	hasFeature	Romanticized Abuse / int_a643c4ee

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