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The role the Fool in the Tragedy of King Lear
The Fool in William Shakespeare's King Lear is often mistaken as foolhardy, but everything he says has a deeper significance and greater truth. Since he is the court jester, the audience assumes that the Fool's main purpose is to entertain us. The Foo ....
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.... make him realize how inadequate his actions are. In another rhyming jest, the Fool, in his cleaver manipulation of speech, tries to desperately to warn King Lear to be careful with what he has or be left with nothing:
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest,
Leave they drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more,
Than two tens to a score.
(I, iv, 115-124)
King Lear takes the Fool's hidden intelligence ....
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