Sustained: to support, hold, or bear up from below
Pity: sympathetic or kindly sorrow
Precipices: a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face
Bandits: a robber, especially a member of a gang
Inhabited: occupied; lived in or on
Cultivated: prepared and used for raising crops
Andulisia: a region in Spain, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
Tetuan: a seaport in N Morocco, on the Mediterranean
Meknes: a city in N Morocco
Quoits: a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg, the object being to encircle it or come as close to it as possible
Shone: a simple past tense and past participle of shine
Moguls: a bump or mound of hard snow on a ski slope
Humbly: not proud or arrogant; modest
Urchins: Mischievous young children, especially those who are poorly or raggedly dressed.
Tucuman: a city in NW Argentina
Garnished: to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.
Discretion: the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice
Exquisite: of special beauty or charm, or rare and appealing excellence, as a face, a flower, coloring, music, or poetry
Bewilderment: completely puzzled or confused; perplexed
Tureens: a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods
Satisfactory: giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements
Amply: fully sufficient or more than adequate for the purpose or needs; plentiful; enough
Convenience: suitable or agreeable to the needs or purpose; well-suited with respect to facility or ease in use; favorable, easy, or comfortable for use.
Commerce: The activity of buying and selling especially by a large scale
Oreillons: (french) means mumps which is an infectious disease characterized by inflammatory swelling
slaughtering: killing
Spit: a long thin metal rod inserted in the middle of the meat to be able to turn the meat for it to be roasted.
pity: sorrow
precipices:A very steep rock face or cliff, typically a tall one.
bandits: a robber, especially a member of a gang
savages:cruel
Provisions: Food or drinks that are supplied, especially for a journey.
Sustained: to support, hold, or bear up from below
Providence: the foreseeing care and guidance of God or nature over the creatures of the earth.
arid: Too dry or barren
vault:an arched structure, usually made of stones, concrete, or bricks, forming a ceiling or roof over a hall, room, sewer, or other wholly or partially enclosed construction.
cultivated: prepared and used for raising crops
Lustrous: Having luster, shining.
Andalusia: a region in Spain, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
Te·tuán: a seaport in N Morocco, on the Mediterranean: former capital of the Spanish zone of Morocco. Meknes-Capital
brocade: fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
Quoits: a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg, the object being to encircle it or come as close to it as possible
Urchins: Mischievous young children, especially those who are poorly or raggedly dressed.
tucuman: nw Argentina
tureen:a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
discretion: the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice
Commerce: The activity of buying and selling especially by a large scale ________________________________________________ Exaggeration: "If i return to Portugal, i'll be burned; if we stay here, we're in constant danger of being put on a spit.: (58)
Understatement:"We'll find some Frenchmen there who travel all over the world , and they'll be able to help us. Perhaps God will take pity on us." (58)
Warped Logic: "it's probably the country where verything goes well, because there must be one like that somewhere. And, despite what Dr.Pangloss used to say, I often noticed that everything went rather badly in Westphalia."(61)
Irony: "The river grew steadily wider, until at last it vanished into as vault of awe-inspiring rocks that rose up to the sky. The river narrowed at this spot and bore them along with terrible speed and noise." (59)
Ridiculous Names: "The little urchins" (59) _________________________________________________
Cayenne: A Seaport and the Capital of French Guiana. Frenchmen: A native or inhabitant of the French Nation. Oreillons: The Mumps. Precipices: A cliff with a Vertical, nearly vertical, or over hanging face. Provisions: The providing or Supplying of something, especially of food or other necessities. Arid: Being without moisture. Bore: To make a whole by drilling. Unscalable: Capable of being scaled. Cultivated: Prepared and used for raising crops. Lustrous: Having luster; shining; luminous. Surpassed: To go beyond in amount, extent, or degree. Andalusia: A region in south Spain bordering on the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Tetuan: A seaport in North Morocco on the Mediterranean. Meknes: A city in north Morocco: former capital of Morocco. Brocade: Fabric woven with an elaborate design. Quoits: A game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an up right peg. Tucuman: A city in North West Argentina. Tureens: A large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods. Condor: New world ventures of the family Cathartidea. Colibris: A type of hummingbird. Amply: In an ample manner; sufficiently or abundantly. Commerce: An interchange of goods or commodities. Reception: The act of receiving or the state of being received. Bewilderment: A confusing maze or tangle as of objects or conditions.
Notes -Cacambo told Candide that this hemisphere was no better than the other and that they ought to go back to Europe.
-Cacambo suggests that they go back to Europe by the shortest road. Candide yearns to go to Cunégonde.
-Candide questions. He says either way there will be consequences
-They had to Cayenne and there were a lot of obstacles on the way
-Cacambo spotted an empty canoe on the beach and suggested that the two fill it with coconuts and then drift with the current.
-As they were exposed to the land, everything appeared beautiful and wealthy. ( better than Westphalia)
-They saw children playing with gold and jewelry. (Must be the sons of the kings country)
- Were invited by two waiters and two waitresses. Served them well. When the meal was over, Cacambo and Candide thought they had amply paid there bill when they left the table with two pieces of gold they picked up on there way from the children.
-The host died with laughter. "All inns run for by the government. You've fared badly here, because this is a poor village, but everywhere else you'll be given the reception you deserve."
-Candide now realizes that Pangloss was wrong about Westphalia. Everything often went wrong in Westphalia.
-"The word Eldorado means ‘the golden one’ in Spanish. It is a place where there is plenty of gold. It symbolizes an ideal state, which a person can desire or imagine. It is a place of perfection. It must be noted that Candide and Cacambo go through a tedious and dangerous journey before reaching this place. This indicates that the ideal state of existence is remote, distant, and almost impossible to achieve."
-Voltaire learned of the fabled land of Eldorado by reading Sir Walter Raleigh's account in The Discoverie of the Large and Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, first published in 1595
I think what is being satirized in this chapter is money. Why i think this is because, Voltaire include characters in the book that are really wealthy. For instance people were dressed in gold so lavishly that mighteve cost a fortune. The children that play with gold and diamonds as if they were dominoes or something useless. Especially when a valuable object is in the hands of a child. When the tutor comes and gets them so they can leave the tutor, smiling, merely threw the jewelry and the gold coins to the ground and walked away. Candide and Cacambo shocked at his actions, they picked up the coins. This shows that the rich or the people who have it find the most valuable useless.
- What i also think is being satirized is optimism" All is for the best". When they landed at Cayenne, everything appeared so beautiful and positive. It was better then Westphalia. People were dressed well and lived well. Candide and Cacambo were invited to dinner. They were served well with hospitality. Candide offered to pay the bill, but the host laughed and said that here in this land everything is paid from the government. "You've fared badly here, because this is poor village, but everywhere you'll be given the reception you deserve." (61) after being told this, he questions about optimism. He also realizes that Pangloss is incorrect." I often noticed that everything went rather badly in Westphalia."(61)
Folly: Foreign People. Candide and Cacambo( not being from Argentina) didn't know that the school children weren't all the kings children, and the toys they were playing with weren't Gold, rubies,or emeralds (64). Voltaire was exaggerating how clueless foreigners can be.No person would assume that rocks, and toys were gold. Wouldn't someone,even from a distant country expect rubies, and gold to be shiny? I thought that was funny. And Natalie, I don't think what you put for understatement , is an understatement. Here's one I got: "You've fared badly here, because this is a poor village...(65)."
I also agree with Wynter. I think what is being satirized is Candide and Cacambo because they were foreigners to the country that they were in. When they wanted to pay the people for serving them food. The servers laughed at them because they are new to this country and don't know that the food that they ate is free.
I agree with Wynter following Amani who made the sma epoint i was going to mention. Another thing i found humorous is how the hostess said that this land is poor therefore the government pays for everything. The land is "poor" that kids would be playing with gold and rubies as toys. AND they would also be dressed in gold clothing. LOL
I agree with Natalie, I didn't realize before that the citizens of the town were claiming to be poor , yet there was gold every where XD. Voltaire expressed that when Candide said "The children of the kings of this country must be well brought up, since they're taught to despise gold and jewels (64)."
In chapter 17, Voltaire satirizes how stupid people really can be. He uses Candide and Cacambo as great examples. While the characters are discovering the new village they see the children playing with quoits. Then Cacambo and Candide start making idiotic comments about the country when they been in their for one day. Cacambo tells Candide that the children “must be the sons of the king of this country”(64). Voltaire uses warped logic to show how the characters assume too much and know to little. As it turns out, the country is considered poor and isn’t ruled by a king. Also since the children were playing with quoits, it doesn’t necessary mean that their sons of the king. The children could of just found the quoits lying around somewhere. Instead of Candide and Cacambo go investigate the country, they act stupid by filling up their minds with assumptions that don’t seem to be true at all.
Voltaire is also satirizing the value of money in chapter 17. The country Eldorado is considered to be “poor” but it contains a lot of treasures and riches. For example, the children in the land play with quoits that were made out of gold, rubies, and emeralds. Since the children leave their quoits lying around, Candide and Cacambo picked them up in order to pay for their dinners. While Candide and Cacambo place the pieces of gold the staff in the inn start laughing. The host says” Excuse us for laughing when you offered to pay us with two stones from our roads” (65). It’s clear that the staff’s eyes gold has a low value and in Candide’s eyes gold has big value. Even the staff called the two pieces of gold “stones for our roads” showing that gold only is a simple rock. This is an example of understatement because the people who work in the inn were showing how gold means nothing to them. Meanwhile, Candide and Cacambo had different views about gold.
I agree with Natalie that Voltaire is also satirizing Optimism. Pangloss believes that everything in the world happens for the best and has Candide to believe is his philosophy too. While Cacambo and Candide were deciding what country to go next, Candide was listing the countries he couldn’t go back to. Candide said” If I got back to my country, I’ll find the Bulgars and the Avars slaughtering everyone in sight; if I return to Portugal I will be burned…”(62). As it turns out, that all the countries Candide has experiences horrible things Pangloss has told Candide it was all for the best. This isn’t clearly all for the best because if he goes back to those places he will be hurt or even killed. I don’t see why Candide being killed is all for the best and when his life is always in danger. Voltaire uses exaggeration to show Optimism is a silly belief that never seems to proven true. Candide experiences more horrible things such as near death experiences than good things.
Michelle Veliz Background Information/ Time Period
In Spanish El Dorado means the “golden one”. Later, El Dorado became the legend “Lost City of Gold”. El Dorado became a city, where it contained the legendary golden king. While searching for the fictional city, Spanish explorer and Conquistador Francisco de Orellana became the first person to travel the Amazon River all the way to its mouth. While many Spanish Conquistadors and explored tried searching for this city, they had no luck finding it. After many years of searching they found no evidence of such a place to exist.
Voltaire was inspired by Sir Walter Raleigh's account in The Discoverie of the Large and Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana to include Eldorado in his story. The book was published in 1595.
Cacambo and Candide continue to travel, but their horses die and they run out if food. They find a canoe and row down the river in hopes of finding civilization. Shortly after that there canoe smashes against some rocks and they had to go on by foot. Cacambo and Candide found their way to a village, where children were playing with gold, emeralds and rubies. The children were called back in to the school leaving the jewels behind. Candide picks them up and returns them to the school master, but the school master tosses them to the ground. Cacambo and Candide walk into the village inn that was compared to a European palace. They were offered food and they ate a very large meal. They wanted to pay for it with two gold stones that they picked up from the floor. The host and hostess laugh while Candide believes that this is the best of all possible worlds.
I agree with Natalie and Michelle that money is being satirized. Voltaire was satirizing the idea of a perfect world because he describes Eldorado as a type of utopia where money seems to not have any value. I understood his satire better and I found myself laughing at several parts of the chapter. This concept of a utopia civilization contrasted everything else that was going on in the outside world. The wars, hunger, poverty, and religion problems ceased to exist in Eldorado. I was surprised that religion didn’t come up in this chapter. I was expecting the host or the hostess to ask Candide and Cacambo about their religion, but it never happened. This shows that religion isn’t an important aspect of this country. Voltaire uses Eldorado to explain that a perfect society is something that is impossible.
Voltaire is satirizing wealth. Elements of Satire:
“The little urchins” (64). I agree with Amani that this is an example of a ridiculous name, but I also believe that it is warped logic. The definition of an urchin; is a young child who is dressed poorly or in rags. The children weren’t dressed poorly at all. They were dressed in gold brocade and Candide referred to them as the children of the kings. This was a twisted point because the children shouldn‘t be called urchins since they were dressed in fancy clothes.
“When the meal was over, Cacambo and Candide thought they had amply paid their bill when they left on the table two of the big pieces of gold they had picked up, but the host and hostess burst out laughing and held their sides for a long time” (65). This is warped logic because gold is valuable. Although in Eldorado it doesn’t seem to have any value at all. The reaction of the host and hostess was hilarious because they looked down at the gold as if it was a joke. That isn’t the reaction that is expected because the gold pieces would be worth much more in other places.
At the beginning of the chapter, Cacambo tells Candide that one hemisphere is no better than the other one. Cacambo suggested that they should go back to Europe but Candide rejects that idea. Candide experienced so many horrible things in Western Europe and wasn’t willing to go back their. Then Cacambo suggested that they go to Cayenne in order to find some French men that would help them. Both Candide and Cacambo agreed on the idea and went off on their journey to Cayenne. During their journey to Cayenne, their horses die of fatigue. This leads both Candide and Cacambo to wild fruit for months. One day they found a canoe and rowed down a river, hoping they will find a village containing living people. The canoe smashes into rocks but Candide and Cacambo survive the crash and travel into a new village. At the new village children were playing with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds. The schoolmaster called the children back in and the children left the treasures lying on the floor. Candide hands the schoolmaster the treasures but the schoolmaster drops the jewels back into the ground. Later in the chapter, both characters go visit the inn and eat a big meal. Candide and Cacambo thought they had to pay for their dinner. So they took out two pieces of gold that they picked up from the ground and placed on the table. The landlord started laughing and said that the pieces of gold were stones from the road and how the government makes all the inns free. This leads to Candide believing that everything in Eldorado happens for the best.
Jessica Sacco Vocabulary: Oreillons- a disease called mumps Spit- long thin metal rod used to hold meat over fire Pity- sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy Precipices- a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face Savages- fierce, cruel, angry, or rude person Fatigue- weariness from bodily or mental exertion Provisions- providing or supplying of something such as food or other necessities Sustained- to support or hold Providence- the foreseeing care and guidance of God or nature over the creatures of the earth Arid- being without moisture; extremely dry, parched Vault- an arched structure Bore- to make by drilling with an instrument Cultivated- prepared and used for raising crops Necessity- an imperative requirement or need for something Lustrous- shining; luminous Surpassed- to go beyond in amount or degree; to be greater than or exceed Andalusia- a region in Spain, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea Tetuan- seaport in N Morocco, on the Mediterranean, former capital of the Spanish zone of Morocco Meknes- a city in Morocco, former capital of Morocco Tattered- torn, ragged; wearing ragged clothing Brocade- fabric woven with an elaborate design Quoits- large round objects, yellow, red or green, which shone with extraordinary brilliance Quoits- a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg Urchins- a mischievous boy or any small boy or youngster Tureens- a large covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods Liqueurs- alcoholic liquors Discretion- the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice Amply- sufficient manner Convenience- suitability Engaged- busy or occupied; involved Commerce- an interchange of goods or commodities Bewilderment- a confusing maze or tangle, as of objects or conditions Satire: Voltaire is satirizing foreign people, money, and stupidity. Elements of satire: Exaggeration- “ They were served four tureens of soup, each garnished with two parrots, a boiled condor weighed two hundred pounds, two roasted monkeys of excellent flavor, three hundred colibris in one dish and six hundred hummingbirds in another: there were also exquisite stews and delicious pastries, and everything was served in dishes made of a kind of rock crystal. The waiters and waitresses poured out various liqueurs made from sugar cane.” (64-65) Ridiculous names- “The little urchins...” (64) Warped logic- “The little urchins immediately stopped playing, leaving their quoits and other playthings on the ground.” (64) Warped logic-“All inns run for the convenience of people engaged in commerce are paid for by the government.” (65) Warped logic- “The children of the kings of this country must be well brought up, since they’re taught to despise gold and jewels.” (64) Understatement- “It’s easy to see you’re not from our country, and we’re not used to foreigners. Excuse us for laughing when you offered to pay us with two stones from our roads.” (65)
Amarelis Raudales
ReplyDeleteVocabulary:
Spit: A long thin metal rod that is pushed through meat in order to hold and turn it while it is roasted over an open fire.
Precipices: A very steep rock face or cliff, typically a tall one.
Provisions: Food or drinks that are supplied, especially for a journey.
Banks: Large elevated areas of a sea floor.
Arid: Too dry or barren.
Vault: A roof in the form of an arch or series of arches.
Unscalable: Incapable of being ascended.
Cultivated: Prepared and used for crops and gathering.
Lustrous: Having luster, shining.
Tattered: Torn, old and generally in poor conditions.
Brocade: Rich fabric, usually silk, woven with a raised pattern typically with gold or silver thread.
Quoits: A ring of iron, rope or rubber thrown in a game to encircle or land as near as possible to an upright peg.
Urchins: Mischievous young children, especially those who are poorly or raggedly dressed.
Tureens: Deep covered dishes from which soup is served.
Carters: Men who drive coaches or carriages.
Discretion: Behaving or speaking in a way to avoid offending someone or revealing private information.
Commerce: The activity of buying and selling especially by a large scale.
Fare: To dine or eat.
Sustained: to support, hold, or bear up from below
ReplyDeletePity: sympathetic or kindly sorrow
Precipices: a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face
Bandits: a robber, especially a member of a gang
Inhabited: occupied; lived in or on
Cultivated: prepared and used for raising crops
Andulisia: a region in Spain, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
Tetuan: a seaport in N Morocco, on the Mediterranean
Meknes: a city in N Morocco
Quoits: a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg, the object being to encircle it or come as close to it as possible
Shone: a simple past tense and past participle of shine
Moguls: a bump or mound of hard snow on a ski slope
Humbly: not proud or arrogant; modest
Urchins: Mischievous young children, especially those who are poorly or raggedly dressed.
Tucuman: a city in NW Argentina
Garnished: to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.
Discretion: the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice
Exquisite: of special beauty or charm, or rare and appealing excellence, as a face, a flower, coloring, music, or poetry
Bewilderment: completely puzzled or confused; perplexed
Tureens: a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods
Satisfactory: giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements
Amply: fully sufficient or more than adequate for the purpose or needs; plentiful; enough
Convenience: suitable or agreeable to the needs or purpose; well-suited with respect to facility or ease in use; favorable, easy, or comfortable for use.
Commerce: The activity of buying and selling especially by a large scale
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ReplyDeleteVocabulary/ Uknown Historical Names:
Oreillons: (french) means mumps which is an infectious disease characterized by inflammatory swelling
slaughtering: killing
Spit: a long thin metal rod inserted in the middle of the meat to be able to turn the meat for it to be roasted.
pity: sorrow
precipices:A very steep rock face or cliff, typically a tall one.
bandits: a robber, especially a member of a gang
savages:cruel
Provisions: Food or drinks that are supplied, especially for a journey.
Sustained: to support, hold, or bear up from below
Providence: the foreseeing care and guidance of God or nature over the creatures of the earth.
arid: Too dry or barren
vault:an arched structure, usually made of stones, concrete, or bricks, forming a ceiling or roof over a hall, room, sewer, or other wholly or partially enclosed construction.
cultivated: prepared and used for raising crops
Lustrous: Having luster, shining.
Andalusia: a region in Spain, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
Te·tuán: a seaport in N Morocco, on the Mediterranean: former capital of the Spanish zone of Morocco. Meknes-Capital
brocade: fabric woven with an elaborate design, especially one having a raised overall pattern.
Quoits: a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg, the object being to encircle it or come as close to it as possible
Urchins: Mischievous young children, especially those who are poorly or raggedly dressed.
tucuman: nw Argentina
tureen:a large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
discretion: the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice
Commerce: The activity of buying and selling especially by a large scale
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Exaggeration: "If i return to Portugal, i'll be burned; if we stay here, we're in constant danger of being put on a spit.: (58)
Understatement:"We'll find some Frenchmen there who travel all over the world , and they'll be able to help us. Perhaps God will take pity on us." (58)
Warped Logic: "it's probably the country where verything goes well, because there must be one like that somewhere. And, despite what Dr.Pangloss used to say, I often noticed that everything went rather badly in Westphalia."(61)
Irony: "The river grew steadily wider, until at last it vanished into as vault of awe-inspiring rocks that rose up to the sky. The river narrowed at this spot and bore them along with terrible speed and noise." (59)
Ridiculous Names: "The little urchins" (59)
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Cayenne: A Seaport and the Capital of French Guiana.
ReplyDeleteFrenchmen: A native or inhabitant of the French Nation.
Oreillons: The Mumps.
Precipices: A cliff with a Vertical, nearly vertical, or over hanging face.
Provisions: The providing or Supplying of something, especially of food or other necessities.
Arid: Being without moisture.
Bore: To make a whole by drilling.
Unscalable: Capable of being scaled.
Cultivated: Prepared and used for raising crops.
Lustrous: Having luster; shining; luminous.
Surpassed: To go beyond in amount, extent, or degree.
Andalusia: A region in south Spain bordering on the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
Tetuan: A seaport in North Morocco on the Mediterranean.
Meknes: A city in north Morocco: former capital of Morocco.
Brocade: Fabric woven with an elaborate design.
Quoits: A game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an up right peg.
Tucuman: A city in North West Argentina.
Tureens: A large, deep, covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods.
Condor: New world ventures of the family Cathartidea.
Colibris: A type of hummingbird.
Amply: In an ample manner; sufficiently or abundantly.
Commerce: An interchange of goods or commodities.
Reception: The act of receiving or the state of being received.
Bewilderment: A confusing maze or tangle as of objects or conditions.
Notes
ReplyDelete-Cacambo told Candide that this hemisphere was no better than the other and that they ought to go back to Europe.
-Cacambo suggests that they go back to Europe by the shortest road. Candide yearns to go to Cunégonde.
-Candide questions. He says either way there will be consequences
-They had to Cayenne and there were a lot of obstacles on the way
-Cacambo spotted an empty canoe on the beach and suggested that the two fill it with coconuts and then drift with the current.
-As they were exposed to the land, everything appeared beautiful and wealthy. ( better than Westphalia)
-They saw children playing with gold and jewelry. (Must be the sons of the kings country)
- Were invited by two waiters and two waitresses. Served them well. When the meal was over, Cacambo and Candide thought they had amply paid there bill when they left the table with two pieces of gold they picked up on there way from the children.
-The host died with laughter. "All inns run for by the government. You've fared badly here, because this is a poor village, but everywhere else you'll be given the reception you deserve."
-Candide now realizes that Pangloss was wrong about Westphalia. Everything often went wrong in Westphalia.
-"The word Eldorado means ‘the golden one’ in Spanish. It is a place where there is plenty of gold. It symbolizes an ideal state, which a person can desire or imagine. It is a place of perfection. It must be noted that Candide and Cacambo go through a tedious and dangerous journey before reaching this place. This indicates that the ideal state of existence is remote, distant, and almost impossible to achieve."
-Voltaire learned of the fabled land of Eldorado by reading Sir Walter Raleigh's account in The Discoverie of the Large and Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, first published in 1595
I think what is being satirized in this chapter is money. Why i think this is because, Voltaire include characters in the book that are really wealthy. For instance people were dressed in gold so lavishly that mighteve cost a fortune. The children that play with gold and diamonds as if they were dominoes or something useless. Especially when a valuable object is in the hands of a child. When the tutor comes and gets them so they can leave the tutor, smiling, merely threw the jewelry and the gold coins to the ground and walked away. Candide and Cacambo shocked at his actions, they picked up the coins. This shows that the rich or the people who have it find the most valuable useless.
- What i also think is being satirized is optimism" All is for the best". When they landed at Cayenne, everything appeared so beautiful and positive. It was better then Westphalia. People were dressed well and lived well. Candide and Cacambo were invited to dinner. They were served well with hospitality. Candide offered to pay the bill, but the host laughed and said that here in this land everything is paid from the government. "You've fared badly here, because this is poor village, but everywhere you'll be given the reception you deserve." (61) after being told this, he questions about optimism. He also realizes that Pangloss is incorrect." I often noticed that everything went rather badly in Westphalia."(61)
Folly: Foreign People.
ReplyDeleteCandide and Cacambo( not being from Argentina) didn't know that the school children weren't all the kings children, and the toys they were playing with weren't Gold, rubies,or emeralds (64). Voltaire was exaggerating how clueless foreigners can be.No person would assume that rocks, and toys were gold. Wouldn't someone,even from a distant country expect rubies, and gold to be shiny? I thought that was funny. And Natalie, I don't think what you put for understatement , is an understatement. Here's one I got:
"You've fared badly here, because this is a poor village...(65)."
i agree with you Natalie, with the elements of satire.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Wynter. I think what is being satirized is Candide and Cacambo because they were foreigners to the country that they were in. When they wanted to pay the people for serving them food. The servers laughed at them because they are new to this country and don't know that the food that they ate is free.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Wynter following Amani who made the sma epoint i was going to mention. Another thing i found humorous is how the hostess said that this land is poor therefore the government pays for everything. The land is "poor" that kids would be playing with gold and rubies as toys. AND they would also be dressed in gold clothing. LOL
ReplyDeleteI agree with Natalie, I didn't realize before that the citizens of the town were claiming to be poor , yet there was gold every where XD. Voltaire expressed that when Candide said "The children of the kings of this country must be well brought up, since they're taught to despise gold and jewels (64)."
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Valet: a male servant who attends the personal needs of someone
Eldorado: a legendary treasure city in South America
Constant: not changing or varying
Despise: to regard with contempt
Fatigue: weariness from bodily or mental exertion.
Steadily: firmly placed or fixed
Peruvian: a native or inhabitant of Peru
Colibris: a group of hummingbirds
Liqueurs: any of a class of alcoholic liquors, generally served after dinner
Convenience: anything that saves or simplifies work
Adorned: to decorate or add beauty
Interpreter: a person who provides an oral translation between speakers who speaks different languages.
Michelle Veliz
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In chapter 17, Voltaire satirizes how stupid people really can be. He uses Candide and Cacambo as great examples. While the characters are discovering the new village they see the children playing with quoits. Then Cacambo and Candide start making idiotic comments about the country when they been in their for one day. Cacambo tells Candide that the children “must be the sons of the king of this country”(64). Voltaire uses warped logic to show how the characters assume too much and know to little. As it turns out, the country is considered poor and isn’t ruled by a king. Also since the children were playing with quoits, it doesn’t necessary mean that their sons of the king. The children could of just found the quoits lying around somewhere. Instead of Candide and Cacambo go investigate the country, they act stupid by filling up their minds with assumptions that don’t seem to be true at all.
Voltaire is also satirizing the value of money in chapter 17. The country Eldorado is considered to be “poor” but it contains a lot of treasures and riches. For example, the children in the land play with quoits that were made out of gold, rubies, and emeralds. Since the children leave their quoits lying around, Candide and Cacambo picked them up in order to pay for their dinners. While Candide and Cacambo place the pieces of gold the staff in the inn start laughing. The host says” Excuse us for laughing when you offered to pay us with two stones from our roads” (65). It’s clear that the staff’s eyes gold has a low value and in Candide’s eyes gold has big value. Even the staff called the two pieces of gold “stones for our roads” showing that gold only is a simple rock. This is an example of understatement because the people who work in the inn were showing how gold means nothing to them. Meanwhile, Candide and Cacambo had different views about gold.
I agree with Natalie that Voltaire is also satirizing Optimism. Pangloss believes that everything in the world happens for the best and has Candide to believe is his philosophy too. While Cacambo and Candide were deciding what country to go next, Candide was listing the countries he couldn’t go back to. Candide said” If I got back to my country, I’ll find the Bulgars and the Avars slaughtering everyone in sight; if I return to Portugal I will be burned…”(62). As it turns out, that all the countries Candide has experiences horrible things Pangloss has told Candide it was all for the best. This isn’t clearly all for the best because if he goes back to those places he will be hurt or even killed. I don’t see why Candide being killed is all for the best and when his life is always in danger. Voltaire uses exaggeration to show Optimism is a silly belief that never seems to proven true. Candide experiences more horrible things such as near death experiences than good things.
Michelle Veliz
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In Spanish El Dorado means the “golden one”. Later, El Dorado became the legend “Lost City of Gold”. El Dorado became a city, where it contained the legendary golden king. While searching for the fictional city, Spanish explorer and Conquistador Francisco de Orellana became the first person to travel the Amazon River all the way to its mouth. While many Spanish Conquistadors and explored tried searching for this city, they had no luck finding it. After many years of searching they found no evidence of such a place to exist.
Voltaire was inspired by Sir Walter Raleigh's account in The Discoverie of the Large and Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana to include Eldorado in his story. The book was published in 1595.
Amarelis Raudales
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Cacambo and Candide continue to travel, but their horses die and they run out if food. They find a canoe and row down the river in hopes of finding civilization. Shortly after that there canoe smashes against some rocks and they had to go on by foot. Cacambo and Candide found their way to a village, where children were playing with gold, emeralds and rubies. The children were called back in to the school leaving the jewels behind. Candide picks them up and returns them to the school master, but the school master tosses them to the ground. Cacambo and Candide walk into the village inn that was compared to a European palace. They were offered food and they ate a very large meal. They wanted to pay for it with two gold stones that they picked up from the floor. The host and hostess laugh while Candide believes that this is the best of all possible worlds.
Amarelis Raudales
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I agree with Natalie and Michelle that money is being satirized. Voltaire was satirizing the idea of a perfect world because he describes Eldorado as a type of utopia where money seems to not have any value. I understood his satire better and I found myself laughing at several parts of the chapter. This concept of a utopia civilization contrasted everything else that was going on in the outside world. The wars, hunger, poverty, and religion problems ceased to exist in Eldorado. I was surprised that religion didn’t come up in this chapter. I was expecting the host or the hostess to ask Candide and Cacambo about their religion, but it never happened. This shows that religion isn’t an important aspect of this country. Voltaire uses Eldorado to explain that a perfect society is something that is impossible.
Amarelis Raudales
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Elements of Satire:
“The little urchins” (64).
I agree with Amani that this is an example of a ridiculous name, but I also believe that it is warped logic. The definition of an urchin; is a young child who is dressed poorly or in rags. The children weren’t dressed poorly at all. They were dressed in gold brocade and Candide referred to them as the children of the kings. This was a twisted point because the children shouldn‘t be called urchins since they were dressed in fancy clothes.
“When the meal was over, Cacambo and Candide thought they had amply paid their bill when they left on the table two of the big pieces of gold they had picked up, but the host and hostess burst out laughing and held their sides for a long time” (65).
This is warped logic because gold is valuable. Although in Eldorado it doesn’t seem to have any value at all. The reaction of the host and hostess was hilarious because they looked down at the gold as if it was a joke. That isn’t the reaction that is expected because the gold pieces would be worth much more in other places.
Michelle Veliz
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At the beginning of the chapter, Cacambo tells Candide that one hemisphere is no better than the other one. Cacambo suggested that they should go back to Europe but Candide rejects that idea. Candide experienced so many horrible things in Western Europe and wasn’t willing to go back their. Then Cacambo suggested that they go to Cayenne in order to find some French men that would help them. Both Candide and Cacambo agreed on the idea and went off on their journey to Cayenne. During their journey to Cayenne, their horses die of fatigue. This leads both Candide and Cacambo to wild fruit for months. One day they found a canoe and rowed down a river, hoping they will find a village containing living people. The canoe smashes into rocks but Candide and Cacambo survive the crash and travel into a new village. At the new village children were playing with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds. The schoolmaster called the children back in and the children left the treasures lying on the floor. Candide hands the schoolmaster the treasures but the schoolmaster drops the jewels back into the ground. Later in the chapter, both characters go visit the inn and eat a big meal. Candide and Cacambo thought they had to pay for their dinner. So they took out two pieces of gold that they picked up from the ground and placed on the table. The landlord started laughing and said that the pieces of gold were stones from the road and how the government makes all the inns free. This leads to Candide believing that everything in Eldorado happens for the best.
Saher A.
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Unfamiliar words/Terms
1. El Dorado: Another name for the "lost city of gold" which Spanish explorers spent years trying to find.
2. Frontiers: the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.
3. Whither:to what place? where?
4. The Bulgarians: Slavic speaking tribal groups
5. Oreillons: a french word for a contagious disease similar to the mumps
6. Abide: to remain; continue
7. Gentry: (in England) the class below the nobility.
8. Ramble: to take a course with many turns or windings, as a stream or path.
9. Precipices: a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face.
10. Subsisted: to have existence
11. Drooping: to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
12. Enfeebled: to make feeble; weaken
13. Providence: a manifestation of divine care or direction.
Satire
One thing being Satirized or mocked in chapter 17 is peoples gullibility
Evidence:
1. "There we shall meet with some Frenchmen, for you know those gentry ramble all over the world"
- Element of Satire: Exaggeration
2. " Perhaps they will assist us, and God will look with pity on our distress.”
- Element of Satire: Exaggeration
3. "They knew pretty nearly whereabouts it lay"
- Element of Satire: Understatement
4. "If we do not meet with agreeable things, we shall at least meet with something new.”
- Element of Satire:Warped logic
5. “There,” said Candide, “is the preceptor of the royal family.”
- Element of Satire: Warped logic
Jessica Sacco
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Oreillons- a disease called mumps
Spit- long thin metal rod used to hold meat over fire
Pity- sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy
Precipices- a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face
Savages- fierce, cruel, angry, or rude person
Fatigue- weariness from bodily or mental exertion
Provisions- providing or supplying of something such as food or other necessities
Sustained- to support or hold
Providence- the foreseeing care and guidance of God or nature over the creatures of the earth
Arid- being without moisture; extremely dry, parched
Vault- an arched structure
Bore- to make by drilling with an instrument
Cultivated- prepared and used for raising crops
Necessity- an imperative requirement or need for something
Lustrous- shining; luminous
Surpassed- to go beyond in amount or degree; to be greater than or exceed
Andalusia- a region in Spain, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
Tetuan- seaport in N Morocco, on the Mediterranean, former capital of the Spanish zone of Morocco
Meknes- a city in Morocco, former capital of Morocco
Tattered- torn, ragged; wearing ragged clothing
Brocade- fabric woven with an elaborate design
Quoits- large round objects, yellow, red or green, which shone with extraordinary brilliance
Quoits- a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg
Urchins- a mischievous boy or any small boy or youngster
Tureens- a large covered dish for serving soup, stew, or other foods
Liqueurs- alcoholic liquors
Discretion- the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice
Amply- sufficient manner
Convenience- suitability
Engaged- busy or occupied; involved
Commerce- an interchange of goods or commodities
Bewilderment- a confusing maze or tangle, as of objects or conditions
Satire:
Voltaire is satirizing foreign people, money, and stupidity.
Elements of satire:
Exaggeration- “ They were served four tureens of soup, each garnished with two parrots, a boiled condor weighed two hundred pounds, two roasted monkeys of excellent flavor, three hundred colibris in one dish and six hundred hummingbirds in another: there were also exquisite stews and delicious pastries, and everything was served in dishes made of a kind of rock crystal. The waiters and waitresses poured out various liqueurs made from sugar cane.” (64-65)
Ridiculous names- “The little urchins...” (64)
Warped logic- “The little urchins immediately stopped playing, leaving their quoits and other playthings on the ground.” (64)
Warped logic-“All inns run for the convenience of people engaged in commerce are paid for by the government.” (65)
Warped logic- “The children of the kings of this country must be well brought up, since they’re taught to despise gold and jewels.” (64)
Understatement- “It’s easy to see you’re not from our country, and we’re not used to foreigners. Excuse us for laughing when you offered to pay us with two stones from our roads.” (65)