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Ivar Nilsson as the Fool in a 1908 stage production of King Lear at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sweden [5]. In his article "The Wisdom of the Fool", Walter Kaiser illustrates that the varied names and words people have attributed to real fools in different societies when put altogether reveal the general characteristics of the wise fool as a literary construct: "empty-headed (μάταιος ...
The fool is a stock character in creative works (literature, film, etc.) and folklore. There are several distinct, although overlapping, categories of fool: simpleton fool, wise fool, and serendipitous fool. The six volume Motif-Index of Folk-Literature contains (in volume four) a group of motifs under the category "Fools (and other unwise ...
Sophomore class artwork, from East Texas State Normal College's 1920 Locust yearbook. In the United States, a sophomore (/ ˈ s ɑː f m ɔːr / or / ˈ s ɒ f ə m ɔːr /) [1] [2] is a person in the second year at an educational institution; usually at a secondary school or at the college and university level, but also in other forms of post-secondary educational institutions.
With the third single off their sophomore album, Songs from the Big Chair, and their first to reach No. 1, Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal have created a song which, against its foreboding message ...
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Outside the United States, the term sophomore is rarely used, with second-year students simply called "second years". Folk etymology indicates that the word means "wise fool"; consequently "sophomoric" means "pretentious, bombastic, inflated in style or manner; immature, crude, superficial" (according to the Oxford English Dictionary).
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He is a wise fool, although Rosalind and Celia jokingly say he is a natural fool ("Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of Nature's wit", "hath sent this natural for our whetstone"). [12] [13] Accordingly, he is often threatened with a whip, a method of punishment often used on people of this category.