The book is Candide by Voltaire , translated by Lowell Bair
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Does any body really love anyone else in the world of candide? A definition of the term might be helpful, so according to Voltaire , what is love ? Consider some of the couple in this world:
1) Candide and Cunegonde ( page 16& 17: page 101-108-110)
2) Pangloss and paquette (same pages also page 23-4)
3) Cunegonde and Don Isssachar (page 32-3)
4) Cunegonde and the Grand inquisitor ( page 32-3)
5) The Old women and her prince (page 39)
6) Cunegonde and the Governor of Argentina (page 47)
7) The girls and the monkeys (page 54-6)
8) Paquette and Brother Giroflee ( Pags 88-91)
9) Senator Pococurante and his young mistress (page 93)
Instruction
1. Your thesis must be controversial. It must not state the obvious, inviting a simple summary of the plot rather than an analysis of the issue you are discussing.
I would actually prefer that you do not use outside research at all and derive your ideas from your own reading book ( Candide) . In this case you only give page number in parenthesis after the passage you are discussing, especially if it quotes directly from the story. You don’t give a “ work cited” list at the end
2. The thesis should appear at the beginning of the paper, and it should have a narrow focus. That is , it should attempt to answer a specific controversial question . The thesis doesn’t have to interpret the meaning of the whole story. It should focus on a sing aspect of the story that reader disagree a bout. For example , here are three different answers to the question, “ What does Voltaire think of the conventional education of this day?
1) To understand what Voltaire thinks of the typical European education of his day, we need to examine how treats phony tutor pangloss, with his ridiculous ideas.
2) To understand what Voltaire think of the typical European education of his day, we need to examine how he treats the scholar Martin, Candide’s most reliable commentator of the societies of England, Germany and France
3) To understand what Voltaire thinks of the typical European education of this day , we need to examine how he views Cacambo, the lest educated Character in the story
3 The thesis must be defended by analyzing the content of specific scenes and also by analyzing at least a few direct quotations from the text of “ Candide”. You describe and analyze specific passages that support your specific narrow point or points. You thesis needs to be controversial because if it is not – in other word it’s something obviously true- you will wind up supporting it by retelling the entire story, That’s a plot summary, which is not what I want.
4. The length should be no shorter than seven hundred words, which is about three typed double space pages. The paper may be longer, as long as everything you say is relevant to the thesis.
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