Voltaire's Candide: One Man's Search For True Happiness And Acceptance Of Life's Disappointments
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Voltaire's Candide: One Man's Search For True Happiness and Acceptance of Life's
Voltaire's Candide is a philosophical tale of one man's search for true
happiness and his ultimate acceptance of life's disappointments. Candide grows
up in the Castle of Westfalia and is taught by the learned philoso ....
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.... it, everything
is all for the good.
Candide's endless trials begin when he is forced into the army simply because
he is the right height, five feet five inches. In the army he is subjected to
endless drills and humiliations and is almost beaten to death. Candide escapes
and, after being degraded by good Christians for being an anti-Christ, meets a
diseased beggar who turns out to be Dr. Pangloss. Dr. Pangloss informs him
that Bulgarian soldiers attacked the castle of Westfalia and kil ....
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