Tricky slave

He is more clever than the upper-class people about him, both the lovers and the characters who block their love, and typically also looking out for his own interests.

[1] Besides the actual slaves of classical theater, he also appears as the scheming valet in Renaissance comedy, called the gracioso in Spanish.

The zanni of Commedia dell'arte are often tricky slaves, as are Puss-in-Boots in Perrault's fairy tale, Jeeves in P. G. Wodehouse's work, Figaro in the opera The Barber of Seville and Serpina in the opera La serva padrona.

Northrop Frye identified him as a central portion of the Myth of Spring comedy and a type of eiron character.

She is initially in Cassim's household but on his death she joins his brother Ali Baba and through her quick-wittedness she saves Ali's life many times and eventually kills his worst enemy, the leader of the Forty Thieves.