Experience+can+cause+and+create+a+feeling+of+enlightenment+and+wisdom

=__**Experience can cause or remove a feeling of enlightenment and wisdom**__=

__**Plot:**__ __**Beginning:**__ - James the Anabaptist's kindness reaffirms Candide's belief in optimism - Pangloss attains a feeling of enlightenment or understanding after the earthquake occurs in Lisbon, but the fault is shown in his reasoning because as he is reasoning Candide passes out where Pangloss may have been able to stop it -Candide mourns the death of Pangloss, James, and Cunegonde when Pangloss is hanged, and he asks how all could be the best of all possible worlds __**Middle:**__ - When Candide visits El Dorado he mentions that it is evident that one should travel because if Pangloss saw it he would not say Thunder tentronkt is the best ( Candide learning from his experience) - The story told by the woman makes Candide feel unenlightened but realize. it seems every regaining of that feeling of understanding comes from realizations -The encounter with the 'negro' causes Candide to renounce Pangloss' philosophy,, unenlightenment, feeling of knowing what is true. - Candide feels enlightened when viewing the friar and Paquette and believes they're happy and that there are reasons to be happy - Candide feels unenlightened when learning they aren't. -Candide ends working on a farm, feeling content although Cunegonde wasn't all that he dreamed she was, or would be. feeling of enlightenment< contentment.
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__**Character(ization)--**__ Candide's innocence is shown through Candide's loss of feeling of feeling of enlighenment as he discovers all is not perfect

__**Beginning:**__ -The incident with the Bulgarians shows his reaction of confusion (it's all different or alien to him) -The incident, in the town where James the Baptist resides, where they offer him no charity and a lady actually dumps stuff on his head. He had figured that he would have some luck in a town because of their religious affiliation as a whole. -Pangloss introduced first through his action with the lady on the castle grounds(eden) foreshadowing the trouble with his philosophy later on __**Middle:**__ - the incident with Vanderdendur where he rips Candide off, leaves Candide feeling betrayed, showing his continued innocence. - Candide also shows confusion(innocence, unfamiliarity) when the girls and the monkeys do their thing.. - - the situation when Abbe deceives Candide. Candide feels unenlightened - The situation where Paquette is with the friar and they aren't happy like Candide thought they were. - Candide sends away the baron showing his change of innocence, he only shortly asks the people he's with if he should.
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Setting contributes by provided experience from all over the world. Experiencing each place in its entirety with all of the misfortune included
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__**Beginning:**__ Beginning:Thunder-ten-Tronckh- Candide's belief in Pangloss' philosophy is affirmed by his ideal situation. Beginning:Earthquake- Candide can't understand how something so awful could occur in the best of worlds. Beginning: Pangloss' Death- Candide mourns his mentor's death by wondering if this should ever happen in the best of worlds.

__**Middle:**__ El Dorado France Surinam

Pococurantes palace Coast of England The farm the point of view in Candide is mostly through Candide's eyes showing his journey and discoveries through his eyes. Although it is mostly through him that the story is spoken, others' thoughts are also shown, showing everyone's feelings that come about in reaction to certain events.
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A third person point of view allows Voltaire to show the ways that Candide's experiences affect his feelings of enlightenment and wisdom.

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