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NaïvetéSee also Inexperience, Innocence.Agnesyoung girl, affects to be simple and ingenuous. [Fr. Lit.: L’Ecole des Femmes]babes in the woodsapplied to easily deceived or naive persons. [Folklore: Jobes, 169]beardlessnesstraditional representation of innocence and inexperience. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 190]Carlisle, Lady Marycouldn’t determine true nobility. [Am. Lit.: Monsieur Beaucaire, Magill I, 616–617]Curlylocksnursery rhyme heroine exemplifies innocence. [Folk-lore: Jobes, 398]Do-Right, DudleyCanadian mountie do-gooder. [TV: “The Dudley Do-Right Show” in Terrace, I, 229–230]Dondifoster child; confronts world with wide-eyed innocence. [Comics: Horn, 217–218]Errol, Cedricseven-year-old believes the best of everyone. [Am. Lit.: Little Lord Fauntleroy]Evelina17-year-old ingenuously circulates through fashionable London. [Br. Lit.: Evelina]GeorgetteTed Baxter’s pretty, ignorant wife. [TV: “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in Terrace, II, 70–71]Little Nellmeek little girl reared by grandfather. [Br. Lit.: The Old Curiosity Shop]Miller, Daisyinnocent and ignorant American girl put in compromising European situations. [Am. Lit.: Daisy Miller]Mirandainnocent and noble-minded daughter of Prospero. [Br. Lit.: The Tempest]Myshkin, Princeloved for his innocence and frankness, lack of sophistication, and kind heart. [Russ. Lit.: Dostoevsky The Idiot]Schlemihl, Peterarchetypal innocent; sold soul to devil. [Ger. Lit.: Peter Schlemihl; Fr. Opera: Westerman, Tales of Hoffman, 274–277]Shoshanarrator’s mentally backward and utterly artless wife. [Am. Lit.: Shosha]Tessachildlike young woman who thinks herself wedded to Tito and obeys his command to tell nobody of their supposed marriage. [Br. Lit.: George Eliot Romola]Topsyyoung slave girl; completely naive. [Am. Lit.: Uncle Tom’s Cabin]white lilacflowers indicative of naivete, callowness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175]MedicalSeenaiveThesaurusSeenaivete |