Candide and Voltaire

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Candide and Voltaire

• Approaches to Literature

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COMEDIC TECHNIQUES

• sweating to death
• --Its a bit wet out there.

• EXAGGERATION (hyperbole)
• UNDERSTATE-
• MENT

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COMEDIC TECHNIQUES

• WARPED LOGIC
• IMPROBABLE SITUATIONS

• Harlan is funny. Harlan is a man. Men are funny.
• --equipping a submarine with a screen door

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satire

• a work that ridicules human foibles, vices and
  follies
• that creates absurdity, challenges beliefs
• GOAL to improve human society
• inspire remodeling (raising), not razing

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Candide

• A picaresque novel series of self-contained
  episodes with a plot and climax adventures and
  exotic travel set in motion by an incident beyond
  the characters control
• like beads on a necklace

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Candide

• technique of digression
• another character relates his/her own personal
  narrative

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FOUR APPROACHES

• Formalistic/
• structural

• looks at the way a piece is organized and
  approachedthe type of discourse and literary
  techniques usedCandide is a satire and uses
  those techniques

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FOUR APPROACHES

• Archetypal

• looks for the universals and motifs in a workin
  Candide look for the mentors he has and what each
  teaches him

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FOUR APPROACHES

• Socio-historic

• sees the implications for the historic time and
  social milieu during which the piece was
  writtenhere its the idea of a utopia

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FOUR APPROACHES

• Reader-response

• asks how the piece resonates with youyour own
  feelings