How does Voltaire use the form of the picaresque novel to present war?
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- How does Voltaire use the form of the picaresque novel to present war?
- Effect of the Old Woman's Tale
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- Cunegonde's experience of war
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- Effect of the lack of war in Eldorado
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- Age of enlightenment
- pg. 47: "Three thousand of the best scientists worked on it"
- Age of enlightenment
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- Lack of war within Western Europe has allowed for further scientific advancement
- pg. 47: "Three thousand of the best scientists worked on it"
- Lack of war within Western Europe has allowed for further scientific advancement
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- Lack of war allows for religious harmony, no class system, education and science
- pg. 44: "we are all priests"
- pg. 46: "All men are free"
- pg 40: "The village schoolmaster appeared at that moment to call them back to the classroom"
- Lack of war allows for religious harmony, no class system, education and science
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- Presentation of war in the New World
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- Corrupt society
- Hipocracy of war
- pg 32: "nothing could be more divine than los Padres making war on the Kings of Spain and Portugal over here and being confessors to the very same Kings back in Europe"
- pg. 39: "The Lobeiros found this speech very reasonable"
- Lack of society
- pg. 38: "It's a Jesuit"
- Irony
- pg. 38: "Make sure you point out to them ... how frightfully inhuman it is to cook people, and how unchristian it is too."
- Irony
- pg. 38: "It's a Jesuit"
- Hipocracy of war
- Rejection of Pangloss' philosophy
- The best of all possible worlds
- pg 39: "this half of the world is no better than the other"
- The best of all possible worlds
- Corrupt society
- Candide's unfailing hope
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- Bulgars and Candide's experience
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- Picaresque: relating to a genre of usually satiric prose fiction originating in Spain and depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his wits in a corrupt society
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- War and women
- Candide's rejection of Pangloss' philosophy as a cause of war
- War and religion
- Hipocracy of war
- Effect of the Old Woman's Tale
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