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Candide Assignment
Read the short book, **[|CANDIDE]**, by the Enlightenment writer, Voltaire. In a three-to-four-page paper you are to write about the following questions. However, please **DO NOT just answer each question separately**. And please **DO NOT** summarize the story. Instead, please prepare a thoughtful analysis of how this work represents the nature of Enlightenment thought.

1. What institutions are being satirized by Voltaire in this book? What are some of the criticisms that he makes against these institutions? How do such criticisms show the way Enlightenment authors reacted to their society in eighteenth century Europe?

2. What kinds of people are being satirized by Voltaire? Give some examples of how the main characters represent different groups in society.

3. What is the significance of Candide’s travels? To Lisbon? To the Americas? Does he have good luck or bad luck? What is the significance of his adventures?

4. Show how the people and the events described in **Candide** represent Enlightenment thinking about social and political reform and contemporary society.

If you have any questions, please email me or speak to me BEFORE the assignment due date (which will be **December 1st**). I will be happy to help you. You do not need a cover page on the assignment, nor do you need a bibliography or footnotes. You MUST use some short quotes to illustrate your points. You may indicate page numbers in parentheses after each quote. Papers turned after the beginning of class on the due date will lose one-half letter grade, and papers turned in at the next class will lose one letter grade. This assignment must be typed. Please prepare your final draft with enough time to correct broken printers and malformatted disks. These are not excuses for turning in a late paper and penalties will apply.