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Candide by Voltaire

Introduction

Candide is one of the most widely read works and studied in more classes school: it is one of the monuments of French literature. However, the work unimpaired ability to provocation: have rarely seemed so classic sassy! This is part of what explains the success of the work, both with teachers as among students: Candide remains one of the most challenging texts studying with a class.

Moreover, it allows to implement the competencies defined by New French Immersion classes in second and first. Candide is used to study the relationship between a work and its context of Publication: the inclusion of philosophical tale in the Enlightenment in fact one of the texts most relevant to the study of the inclusion of a work in history. Candide can address the kinds of arguments: characteristic of indirect argumentation, it is one of the best examples of kind of philosophical tale.

Candide is particularly well suited to analyzing literary work mischievous in which the implicit allusion dominate, it requires careful reading that seeking to decode meaning, reading between the lines. It allows students to discover the benefits of analytical reading. Candide finally allows further study of the style and language: characteristic the language of Enlightenment (vocabulary, syntax), the work involves processes clearly identifiable, such as registers and pathetic irony (Volatire & Adams, pp. 63-72). 

Discussion

Instead of this passage in the work: from illusion to disillusion 

Candide was "cast out of paradise" refers to Adam in Genesis. This sentence is a harbinger of the following work as Candide, driven from the castle considered paradise, will know the reality of the world and its woes (suffering, pain, work).  "Weeping, raising his eyes to heaven" Candide regrets his eviction from the castle.  We lexical field of exhaustion ("transition", "dragged", "dying of hunger and fatigue") and a sense of total count "went to bed without supper in the middle of the field ...