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European and classical literature · Sixth form / stretch

Candide

Voltaire

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A sequence of disruptive encounters puts an optimistic explanation of the world under pressure. Distinguish a speaker’s repeated principle from the evidence supplied by events, and examine how the rapid movement of satire makes apparently tidy answers difficult to sustain.

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