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A 2
1/2 page paper which examines the character development of Candide in “Candide” by
Voltaire, and Elizabeth in “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen, as it relates to
discovering what is truly important in life. No additional sources cited.
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2 pages (~225 words per page)
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us with characters who develop and learn throughout the novel. In Voltaires story we have Candide and in Austens tale we have Elizabeth as the characters who stand out as
the most fully developed by the end of the story. They are characters who start the stories as somewhat naive, though possessing good dreams and morals, and end the stories
as wiser individuals who understand what is really important in life. In the following paper we briefly examine this condition. Candide and Elizabeth In the beginning of Voltaires novel
we find that Candide is a very innocent young man who has yet to experience life. He possesses, however, qualities that make him a man to be liked, rather than
a man that the reader finds distasteful. His weakness is that he is inexperienced and naive. In Austens book we have Elizabeth who is also a likable character who is
naive. Both have simple notions of what the world is about, and both feel that they are perhaps righteous in these assumptions. Slowly each character begins to see how
they were wrong in their innocence. For example, with Elizabeth she slowly begins to realize that it is not money, or breeding which ensures that an individual is worthy of
being respected. She begins to see that it is nobility and integrity which provide the foundation for a worthy individual. This is not to say that she was ever truly
a snob about money and such, for she possessed the elementary characteristics which genuinely respected people, but she ignorantly followed her social upbringing and did not truly notice subtle truths
until she began developing. In the case of Candide we have a young man who begins to truly experience the harsh and painful realities of life. He engages in
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