Work on Candide for 5/2/13

Thank you, Josh, for finding us these resources:

Questions To Think About:
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/candide.html

An article entitled "Irony and Social Critique in 'A Modest Proposal' and _Candide_"

Here are the questions about Candide that we're working with:

1) What were the conditions in the world that Voltaire was satirizing? Tsipora and Ayala

2) Who was the book's audience, and what was their reaction to it? Did the lower classes understand the book? Josh and David 

3) What was Voltaire's motivation in writing the book? Talia and Raquel

4) Why does Voltaire use utopias? Jenny, Ronit, Maddie

5) What is Voltaire's view of theodicy (not The Odyssey)? Michael, Alex, Elijah 

6) Is Voltaire himself an optimist or pessimist? Benny and Solomon

7) What is Voltaire's bias? Sammy and Benni

8) What is Voltaire's view of religion? Adina and Ayelet

9) Why is Candide a "classic?" Why are we reading this book?

10) Can this book be related to the Africa project? Tamar and Ayelet