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    Brenda Duran Honors English Mr. Carpenter Per. 2 Tartuffe In the story Tartuffe by Moliere‚ the audience can view many foil characters. It seems as if every character had a foil‚ meaning opposite character. The two foils that most stood out were Tartuffe and Cleante. These characters show completely different personalities and everything about them is actually the opposite. One is a hypocrite about religion and the other one

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    society. This concept was very clear to Herodotus and Voltaire‚ two historians that‚ although lived a totally different period and contest‚ share some affinities in the way in which they write about the past. They both were interested in the cultural history‚ in the usefulness of history in the comprehension of the present and in the importance of on field research. Notwithstanding‚ they investigate the days of yore with different purposes; Voltaire with the aim of supporting his political and philosophical

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    What Is Candide A Satire

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    Candid Essay In Candid by Voltaire‚ we discover the struggle to expand the effectiveness of the satire in the novel that established a group of fools‚ each one lacking comprehension with errors in the surrounding world. Through his description of the human standpoint‚ it turns out to be obvious that the eighteenth-century intelligentsia were conscious of the unpredictable and often erratic origin of wealth. Voltaire‚ in his work‚ is dangerous of human addiction on financial goods including gold

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    For centuries they have examined our world through their critical andanalytical thinking and have come with answers for some of our problems. For this assignment I will becomparing and contrasting two gifted philosophers of the world; Socrates and Voltaire. The socrate is a philosopher who was accuser by the anthem of many different crimes

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    Reality Between all the texts‚ we have studied so far‚ Candide or optimism was the most interesting. I have to say one reason is because I love the different philosophical views in the text. First of all‚ the text is written during the Age of Enlightment. The main philosophy at that time is that people can work together to make the world a better place. The crucial contrast in the story deals with irrational ideas as taught to Candide about being optimistic‚ versus reality as viewed by the rest

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    Candide Character Analysis

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    Voltaire’s Candide seems to display a world of horror‚ one filled with floggings‚ rapes‚ robberies‚ unjust executions‚ disease‚ natural disasters‚ betrayals and cannibalism. Pangloss‚ the philosopher‚ has a constant optimistic view throughout the entire novel even despite all of the cruelty in the world. While looking back on the book I couldn’t think of many characters that displayed admirable qualities. Even though Pangloss stuck to his views that everything is for the best in this best of all

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    Extreme and Moderate Characters in Tartuffe In Moliére’s Tartuffe (Moiré 1664)‚ the reader is able to see a great contrast of Extreme and Moderate characters. Extreme characters being those who are seen as over the top‚ or very passionate people‚ and the moderate characters having a more calm and subtle approach to ideas. The extreme characters in this case would be Madam Pernelle‚ Orgon‚ Tartuffe‚ and Dorine. The moderate characters are seen as Cleante and Elmire. One of the characters that

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    Candide Free-will-agent Determine the course of action Leibniz Cause-effect Nature catastrophe disaster=knowledge Good and bad=moral Third person Good may distance readers from the protagonist/hero Genealogy Chain reaction‚ trace back the origin Disease: syphilisparody of genealogy love and cause and effect become questionable El Dorado The best‚ utopia Good: no material wealth‚ all in agreement‚ knowledge/gallery‚ safe (very hard to reach and surrounded by mountains)‚ open

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    He grows up in the castle under the tutelage of the scholar Pangloss. Candide falls in love with the baron’s beautiful daughter Cunegonde. The baron catches the two kissing and expels Candide from his home. On his own for the first time‚ Candide is soon conscripted into the army of the Bulgars. He wanders away from camp for a brief walk‚ and is brutally flogged as a deserter. After witnessing a horrific battle

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    desire to see Tartuffe suffer for his betrayal. We are reintroduced to the differences of a fraud and a true Christian. Cleante interrupted Orgon and said that he should not hope revenge against Tartuffe but‚ rather hope that Tartuffe repents for his sins and a light sentence by the King. Family and loyalty is another theme that is commonly recurring in the play. In the beginning of the play‚ Orgon falls further and further into Tartuffe’s trap and the whole household suffer from this. This makes

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