The North Wind and the Sun
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"The North Wind and the Sun" is a classic Aesop fable that contrasts force and persuasion through a contest between the wind and the sun to remove a traveler's cloak, illustrating the superior power of gentle influence over brute strength.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aesop's fable
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didactic story ⓘ moral tale ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| featuresEvent |
attempts to remove a traveler’s cloak
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contest between the North Wind and the Sun ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
animated shorts
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children's theatre ⓘ picture books ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Aesop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
the North Wind
NERFINISHED
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the Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ the traveler ⓘ the traveler’s cloak ⓘ |
| hasCollection | Aesop's Fables NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Ancient Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducationalUse |
teaching language and phonetics
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teaching morals ⓘ teaching rhetoric and persuasion ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
children's literature
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fable ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMoral |
Gentle persuasion is more effective than brute force.
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Kindness and mildness can achieve what violence cannot. ⓘ |
| hasMotive | demonstrating superiority of persuasion over coercion ⓘ |
| hasNotableUse | sample text for International Phonetic Alphabet demonstrations ⓘ |
| hasOutcome |
the North Wind fails to remove the cloak
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the Sun wins the contest ⓘ the traveler removes his cloak because of warmth ⓘ |
| hasSymbolism |
the North Wind symbolizes force
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the Sun symbolizes persuasion ⓘ the cloak symbolizes resistance ⓘ the traveler symbolizes ordinary people ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience |
children
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general readers ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
competition
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ineffectiveness of brute force ⓘ persuasion versus force ⓘ power of gentleness ⓘ |
| hasTimeOfOrigin | classical antiquity ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | standard text in phonetic transcription practice ⓘ |
| isUsedBy |
linguists
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phoneticians ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The North Wind and the Sun compete to make a traveler remove his cloak; the Sun wins by warming him rather than using force. ⓘ |
| usesAnthropomorphism |
the North Wind
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the Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Aesop's Fables