Study Questions for Voltaire, Candide
Questions:
1. What belief (expressed by Pangloss) is Voltaire specifically criticizing in
Candide? How does this belief related to the Enlightenment as a movement?
2. Does Candide question Pangloss’s belief during the course of the story?
When and why?
3. What is the significance of Eldorado and how does it represent a criticism
of eighteenth-century Europe?
4. Which character do you think best expresses Voltaire's own feelings? What is
his final solution to Candide’s problems at the end of the book?
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