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  Candide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Candide, ou l'Optimisme, (English: Candide, or Optimism) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire.
In Candide, Leibniz is represented by the philosopher Pangloss, the tutor of the title character.
Candide is discussing with his friend Martin whether people in England are as foolish as the French.
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 candide
Candide meets Pangloss who is ill with syphilis and tells Candide that Cunegonde was raped and disemboweled and she and her family are dead.
Candide and Cacambo arrive at Eldorado where the pebbles on the ground are diamonds and rubies and the dirt is gold.
Candide's garden in Turkey is not a special place, but an ordinary one, where ordinary people could try to live their ordinary lives.
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Candide kills him, too, and on the advice of the old woman he, she, and Cunegonde take flight to Cadiz, Spain, where Candide is made a captain in the army being sent to fight the Jesuits in Paraguay.
Candide witnesses the Lisbon earthquake and is flogged by the Inquisition.
Candide is forced to choose between being beaten by the entire regiment ("running the gauntlet") 36 times or having 12 bullets in his head.
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Candide was touched with compassion; he had learned to shoot while he was among the Bulgarians, and he could hit a filbert in a hedge without touching a leaf.
Candide, while he was listening to their adventures, called to mind what the old woman had said to him in their voyage to Buenos Ayres, and the wager she had laid that there was not a person on board the ship but had met with great misfortunes.
Candide recovered, and till he was in a condition to go abroad had a great deal of good company to pass the evenings with him in his chamber.
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 Candide: Study Guide
As you read Candide, try to keep in mind the contrast between the philosophical ideals of what the characters say and the reality of what they do, or what is happening around them.
Candide asks Martin if he believes that men have always been liars, etc., that is, is this man's true nature.
In one place Candide says that he is bound by duty to love Candide, and in another place he says that it is a pity that she has become so ugly.
www.auburn.edu /~mitrege/ENGL2210/study-guides/candide.html   (2477 words)

  
 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Candide Study Guide
Candide, Martin and the Abbé of Périgord head to her house in Saint-Honoré, a suburb of Paris, where they come upon a table of guests busy at a game of cards.
Martin quotes Plato as saying that "those are not the best stomachs that reject, without distinction, all sorts of aliments." Voltaire's metaphorical use of the stomach as an organ of taste points to the importance of aesthetic theory in his understanding of the human condition.
Critics have long considered Candide to be primarily a philosophical attack, but it is clear from this section that one of Voltaire's central aims is nothing less than the restoration of our capacity to appreciate good art and literature.
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 What Happened to Candide and Martin in France
Candide, who was naturally curious, suffered himself to be conducted to this lady's house, which was in the suburbs of Saint-Honore.
Candide listened to this discourse with great attention, and conceived a high opinion of the person who delivered it; and as the Marchioness had taken care to place him near her side, he took the liberty to whisper her softly in the ear and ask who this person was that spoke so well.
So saying, he ordered Candide's irons to be struck off, acknowledged himself mistaken, and sent his followers about their business, after which he conducted Candide and Martin to Dieppe, and left them to the care of his brother.
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 Candide / 1956 Broadway Production
Candide and Martin have been rescued from the ship, and are floating about the ocean on a raft.
Candide is overjoyed to find his old teacher, and Pangloss sets about repairing the damage done his philosophy by Candide's experiences.
Candide and Dr. Pangloss appear and are caught up by the merriment, the wine and the gambling, and Candide is swindled out of his remaining gold by the avaricious crowd.
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 Bernstein's Candide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This is either the third or the fifth time Prince has staged "Candide"-- depending on how you count his ways--but not because he didn't get it right the first time, but because he has kept on getting it better.
Certain forms of exhibitionism are to be encouraged, and Harolyn Blackwell's strutting her impressive set of vocal cords in the new revival of "Candide," which opened Tuesday night at the Gershwin Theater, is definitely one of them.
Martin is terrific, however, in a disarmingly warm, wonderfully timed performance that respects the line between comic exaggeration and grotesqueness.
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Candide: "It is the reverse of Bangladesh : a paradisiac nature, inhabitants in the unison and the "mads of god" who are baited with all to destroy".
Martin: "These "mads of god" or rather "mads of devil " are only ordinary men with their usual destroying passions.
Martin: "Where the masses, admirably drawn up by the media, are no more than sponges soaked with football, plays and ditties".
www.chez.com /optimisme/chapterfourteen.htm   (705 words)

  
 Works of Voltaire vol. 1 ToC: The Online Library of Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Reception Candide And Cacambo Met With Among The Jesuits In Paraguay.
Candide And Martin, While Thus Reasoning With Each Other, Draw Near To The Coast Of France.
Candide And Martin Sup With Six Sharpers—Who They Were.
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 Candide -- Chapter 27
In a few days they reached the Bosphorus; and the first thing Candide did was to pay a high ransom for Cacambo; then, without losing time, he and his companions went on board a galley, in order to search for his Cunegund on the banks of the Propontis, notwithstanding she was grown so ugly.
The captain, upon Candide's first proposal, had already tacked about, and he made the crew ply their oars so effectually, that the vessel flew through the water, quicker than a bird cleaves the air.
Candide instantly sent for a Jew, to whom he sold for fifty thousand sequins a diamond richly worth one hundred thousand, though the fellow swore to him all the time by Father Abraham that he gave him the most he could possibly afford.
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 Amazon.com: Candide: The New Broadway Cast Recording (1997 Revival): Music: Leonard Bernstein,Richard Wilbur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Harolyn Blackwell indeed has a thrilling soprano voice, and sings the devilish 'jewel song' aria "Glitter and Be Gay" with confidence and panache, but I feel she over-plays the comedy and makes the song less stylish.
Andrea Martin spins gold with "I Am Easily-Assimilated", and Jim Dale is humorous and caustic in his performance.
The performances are wonderful, especially Andrea Martin who's delightful to watch onstage (I saw her in Oklahoma!).
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 Candide ch.20
The old philosopher, whose name was Martin, took shipping with Candide for Bordeaux.
Candide, however, had one advantage over Martin: he lived in the pleasing hopes of seeing Miss Cunegonde once more; whereas, the poor philosopher had nothing to hope for.
"It is certain", said Candide, "that there is something diabolical in this affair." As he was speaking thus he spied something of a shining red hue, which swam close to the vessel.
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 Candide by Voltaire
The French and Spanish ships continued their cruise, and Candide and Martin their conversation.
"Are you not surprised," continued Candide, "at the love which the two girls in the country of the Oreillons had for those two monkeys?- You know I have told you the story."
Candide stayed no longer at Bordeaux than was necessary to dispose of a few of the pebbles he had brought from El Dorado, and to provide himself with a post-chaise for two persons, for he could no longer stir a step without his philosopher Martin.
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 Literature.org - The Online Literature Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Chapter 14 - The Reception Candide and Cacambo Met with among the Jesuits in Paraguay
Chapter 21 - Candide and Martin, While Thus Reasoning with Each Other, Draw Near to the Coast of France
Chapter 26 - Candide and Martin Sup with Six Sharpers-Who They Were
www.literature.org /authors/voltaire/candide   (401 words)

  
 Candide -- Chapter 21   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
At length they descried the coast of France, when Candide said to Martin, "Pray Monsieur Martin, were you ever in France?"
"Now we are upon this subject," said Candide, "do you think that the earth was originally sea, as we read in that great book which belongs to the captain of the ship?"
"Oh," said Candide, "there is a great deal of difference; for free will-" and reasoning thus they arrived at Bordeaux.
itsmystory.net /Writers/Voltaire/candide21.htm   (517 words)

  
 Candide; or, The optimist,
Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado-What They Saw There
Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast-What They See There
Candide and Martin Sup with Six Sharpers-Who They Were
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