Solomon: What was your Question that you studied?
Alex: What were Voltaire's views on Theodicy,
Solomon: What exactly is theodicy?
Alex: Theodicy is the study of the works of evil in the world.
Solomon: Why did you choose this question?
Alex: Because throughout "Candide" you see many works of evil committed through Candide's eyes. You see that evil is everywhere, no matter where you go.
Solomon: What did you learn about this question?
Alex: I learnt that evil is created by human beings, trying to change the way they see the world. They are trying to make it perfect. But they are trying to change a world that has already been deemed perfect by God. So, the want for something better is translated into evil.
Group: Ronit Langer and Jenny Rosen
Benny: What was your question that you studied?
Jenny: Our question was, how does Voltaire use utopias in Candide?
Benny: Why did you choose this question?
Jenny: We chose this question because Voltaire's book was centralized around Utopias, which interested us.
Benny: What did you learn
Ronit: We learnt that Voltaire used utopias to prove that they are impossible, and they are very fragile. And we also learnt that society corrupts people so we can never truly have a utopia unless we are on a farm by ourselves.
I really like the way you used a question-answer fromat. It made it very easy to understand and very user friendly. I just have one question how come utopias always fail? Although utopias always fail, your blog was certainly not a failure! Good for you guys!!
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I really like the first group's description of how evil is created by human beings. I never thought evil could be created through pure intentions, and from humans trying to perfect the world. For the second groups answer about utopias- do you think that utopias could exist other than on a farm, if society wasn't corrupt? Great job, I found this very interesting!
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