Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture 23: Feb 05: Voltaire, Candide and the Enlightenment (cont)
8 Feb 2019
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Absolute optimism, the whole that we are living is the best posible world. (reasoning: God is perfect, god created this world so this world has to be perfect too). Orthodox philosopher, using storytelling to work on philosophy (short-stories) Determinism: is way of looking at the world/reality as the reality where anything that happens must happen. Satire: mocking, satire, writers who devote to satire are who want to change a certain stage, the reality of times , demorcracy, social reform. The difference between satire and parody: parody is ridiculing imitation, acquires a satirical task; but parody is not always satirical. Satire aims to correct, parody does not have the same aim (not necessary to correct, just to make fun) Earthly paradise: he seems to live in a earthly paradice, everything is perfect, until something happens candice meets cunegonde (daughter of the master of the castle) Chapter 1: brought up in a beautiful castle, kicked out of the same.
