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Candide
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Candide
Pages 1 - 200
Exposition
Characters
Candide
"Candide, all stupefied, could not yet very well realize how he was a hero. He resolved one fine day in spring to go for a walk, marching straight before him, believing that it was a privilege of the human as well as of the animal species to make use of their legs as they please" (page 180)
Positive, optimistic and a bit naive
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Cunégonde
The Confident or possibly foil to Candide. He often loses himself to his own detriment in his search for Cunegonde
A girls who experiences many difficulties and trials in the story as a woman. She is a comment on the difficult lives of women at the time.
"“For my part, I have so far held out against both, and I verily believe that this is the reason why I am still beloved.” page 200
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Setting
El Dorado
Where the book ends. Candide spends his time here realizing that life can be confusing and uncertain chapter 5
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Symbols
The Garden
I have only twenty acres,” replied the old man; “I and my children cultivate them; our labour preserves us from three great evils—weariness, vice, and want.” Page 14
The garden where Candide and the other remaining characters live at the end of the novel is a symbol for the world as it might be if improved by reason and the philosophy of the Enlightenment. Like Westphalia in the beginning of the novel, it resembles the Garden of Eden, but with some important differences.
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