Answers On Voltaire's 'Candide'

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Candide Questions Chapter 1 and 2 1. Every character and attitude that Voltaire portrays in the first chapter was satirized. For example, The name of the barony- Thunder-ten-tronckh, guttural, primitive-sounding set of words—undercuts the family’s pride in their noble heritage. Pangloss would be a parody of all of the philosophers who expound on subject that have no effect on the world. His school was names Metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigology, and it prods at Pangloss’s verbal feats and suggests how stupid Voltaire belives such idle thinkers to be. 2. The army is full of menacing and cruel men, who causes pain and suffering. Very influential members of the nobility start wars, but common soldiers reap the consequences. No side of the conflict is better than the other, and they both engage in rape, murder, and destruction to each other. Chapter 3…show more content…
During the meeting with the Baron, Candide figured out that the Baron was Miss Cunégonde brother. Candide thought that he was murdered by the Bulgarians. They had a nice conversation but when Candide talk about marrying Cunégonde the baron attack Candide and Candide was forced to kill Cunégonde brother. Chapter 16 &17 17. The people from Eldorado are different because none of the inhabitants attempts to force beliefs on others, no one is imprisoned, and the king sees his visitors as his equals. The education was more advance than in the rest of the world and poverty doesn’t exist. Candide belives this proves Pangloss point that this place is the “best of all possible worlds”. I don’t think there is a difference between a primitive society and a modern society. Each society has a leader that set the rules for all of the inhabitants that live in that society have to follow. Chapter 18 18. They decided to leave Eldorado because Candide didn’t want to be away from Miss Cunégonde. Candide loves Cunégonde a lot and she fee s the same. So Candide left because he wanted to be with Cunégonde. Chapter

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