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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1734 words (6.94 pages) in the essay titled Candide Europe and frontier South America; mid-eighteenth centuryPangloss,Candide s tutor and philosopher friend Cunegonde, the beautiful daughter of a baron Cacambo, Candide s servant and companion Martin, a later traveling companion Candide, the illegitimate son of a Baron s sister, was sent to live with the Baron at his beautiful castle in Westphalia. The Baroness weighed about three hundred and fifty pounds, as therefore greatly respected, and did the honors of the house it had digniy which rendered her still more respect. Her daughter Cunegonde, aged seventeen, was rosy-checked, fresh, plump and tempting. The Baron s son appeared in every respect worthy of his father. The tutor Pangloss was the oracle of the house, and little Candide followed his lessons with all the candor of his age and character. Pangloss, the greatest philosopher of the province and therefore of the whole world, taught Candide that he lived in the best of all possible worlds. His theory was that since everything is made for an end, everything is necessarily for the best end. Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches ... Over the years at the castle, Candide adopted dear Pangloss optimism. However, his bliss was not to be. Candide loon became infatuated with the beauty of Cunegonde, and one day had an intimate encounter with her in the castle. The noble Baron witnessed this scene and drov... |
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Keywords: candide, pangloss, run the gauntlet, traveling companion, infatuated, best of all possible worlds, bulgar, philosopher, spectacles, tutor, army, beautiful daughter, s young, illegitimate son, intimate encounter, mid eighteenth century, brutal battle, breeched, westphalia, breeches