What was your favorite section of Candide. What’s one of the themes in the work? How does your section relate to central theme in the work? What was the aesthetic reading experience like for you? Explain/reflect at length on each and use support from introduction to Voltaire/Enlightenment.
Description Reading: Voltaire’s Candide Candide is a most vivid and often absurd tale revealing the immorality in a fair number of moral presuppositions. There is little the often macabre comedy does not mock, including fiction and comedy, themselves. Significantly, Candide reveals the underside of claims for “a rational universal order,” a claim Alexander Pope, by […]