Candide | Topics for Discussion
1. How does the author get the reader immediately involved.in the story?
2. The sounds of the characters' names are often chosen for the meaning (of one or more syllables) or the effect when spoken aloud. Which names have a humorous effect? Which are more sober? Which have associated meanings?
3. How is the tutor Pangloss' belief that this is the best of all possible worlds made to seem by turns grimly inevitable and ludicrous?
4. How does Candide receive kindness and charity? How does he receive cruelty and injury?
5. How does Candide find himself...
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