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A 4 page paper discussing the genre of the quest novel in general, and how Gilgamesh and Voltaire's Candide fit into it. The novel concludes that while it does feature a journey, Candide ultimately fails to pass the test of being a quest novel because Candide does not learn anything from his quest; he remains as stupid as ever. No additional sources cited.
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pure being allowed a glimpse of the sacred object. John Bunyans Pilgrims Progress tells the story of Christian, a sort of Everyman, journeying from the City of Destruction to the
Celestial City; it is explicitly an allegory of the Christian souls passage through earthly life to the gates of Heaven. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote is a long, picaresque tale
of an anachronistic knight-errant traveling the countryside and trying to live up to an ideal of chivalry that died long before he was born. Even the twentieth-centurys Wizard of Oz
is a quest tale (although it must be admitted that the screenplay puts much more of a moralistic twist on the story than Baums original manuscript did). The underlying
precept behind all these stories is that the seeker in all of us has to wander forth from his or her home and expand his or her horizons in order
to grow and mature. In many cases, the seeker returns home again, but always deeply changed, and ready to take on the responsibilities of the new life into which he
or she has passed. In this sense, most quest tales chronicle a rite of passage -- and the ones that do not are significant for this omission. In this paper
we will discuss two stories involving journeys -- the ancient Babylonian story of Gilgamesh, and Voltaires Candide. Written about 2000 B.C., Gilgamesh is one of the finest examples of
epic literature to have come down to us from the ancient world. Certainly in many ways it seems the most modern; it gives the sense of being artistically and consciously
sculpted rather than tossed together, as so many stories deriving from an oral tradition do. Gilgamesh served much the same purpose as other heroic epics such as the Iliad
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