HUM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: 1755 Lisbon Earthquake, Anabaptism, Storm Bay
Candide & Oryx and Crake—
Essay topic #3, #6, #7
- Main theme for both novels
- Atood’s oe oeed ith the futue of iilizatio ad its liits
o Are humans really meant to be civilized beings
o Civilization begins in chapter 3 when they are kicked out of the garden (Adam
has to grow his own food)
o Farms are the first step towards cities and civilized life
- Environmentalist angle, what kind of civilization possible for us in the future?
- What would life had been like before the fall
- Chapter #5
- One of the saddest chapters
- Jacque the Anabaptist is killed
- The employer is a Holland based manufacturer of rugs, they (all 3) go to Lisbon on
business, horrible storm and ship is torn apart, nasty sailor attacks Jaque and the nasty
sailor falls overboard, (because Jacque is such a good person—raised by Anabaptists) he
is forgiving and compassionate and jumps into the sea who just attacked him, Jaque
saves the sailor but then the sailor watches as Jacque drowns in the sea without a worry
- Jacque and the Anabaptists should be more careful about who they choose to help.
- Jacue is’t hoose eough about who his rescue he comes to.
- Candide initially thinks about helping Jacque, diving in, Dr. Candloss stops him from
helping because he says that it as eat to e asially
- Sailor, Candide, and Dr. Candloss survive the storm
- Bay of Lisbon
- Opriory??? – do’t iole a use of the seses, o histoial, dioed fo ealit
- 3 manage to get to shore, the sailor separate from the other 2
- Horrific earthquake occurred—historic event Nov. 1st 1755 The great Lisbon earthquake
- Candide is injured, some falling stones hit him, Pangloss is continuing to theorize in his
own stupid way instead of helping candide
o Eath uake i Liso has to e oeted to the Aeias – theorize
- Pangloss still not helping candide, he does not have a grasp of the social world
- Trying to assist the survivors of the horrific tragedy
- Offie of the iuisitio, It ould see that the getlea does ot eliee i oigial
si
- If you say original sin is the best of all possible worlds—this is heretical
- Pagloss ties to oet ad sas Ada ad ee ad all that had to happe to ake
the old as good as it is ight o
- You do not believe in free will!
- Disobedience is the evidence that they are free
- Pangloss tries to correct again, then officer gives pourer of wine the signal to put ruffee
i pagloass’s glass eause he is a heeti ad eeds to die
- Pangloss is a heretic and Candide is in agreement with him so they are both arrested for
being a heretic
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