Sun+and+Pola

=Sun and Pola=

1. What are the three biggest targets of Voltaire's satire in these pages? Discuss, and give evidence by quoting exact passages.

Quote: //'Yet when my mother sold me for ten Patagonian ecus on the coast of Guinea, she told me: "My child, give thanks to our fetishes, and worship them always, for they will make your life happy; you have the honour to be a slave to our white masters, and therefore you are making the fortune of your father and mother." Alas! I don't know if made their fortune, but they certainly didn't make mine.' pg.52 (top)//
 * - Satire of slavery**

//Quote: 'But you, Monsieur Martin,' he said to the scholar,'what do you mkae of all this? What is your idea of physical evil and moral evil?' -- 'Sir,' replied Matin,'the priests accuesed me of being a Socinian; but the truth of the matter is that I am a Manichean.' -- 'Now you are making fun of me,' said Candide,'there are surely no Manicheans left in the world.' -- Well, here is one,' said Martin. 'I cannot help it, but I cannot see things in any other way.' -- 'Then you must have the devil in you,' said Candide. -- 'He takes so great a share in the affairs of this world,' said Martin, 'that he may well be part of me, as of everything else; but I assure you, when I look around ar rhis globe, or rather this globule, I think that God has indeed abondoned it all to some malign being -- all except your Eldorado, of course.' pg. 56 middle//
 * -Satire of God**

Quote: //'Oh Pangloss!' cried Candide. 'This is one abomination you could not have anticipated, and I fear it has finally done for me: I am giving up on your Optimism after all.' pg. 52 ( in the middle )//
 * - Satire of optimism**

//Quote: 'Now, my dear friend,' he said to him, 'this is what you must do. We each have five or six millions' worth of diamonds in our pockets; you are cleverer than I; go and bring Mademoiselle Cunegonde back from Buenos Aires. If the Governor make difficulties, offer him a million; if he still obstinate, offer him two. You have not killed any Inquisitors, so no one will be supicious of you...' pg. 52~53
 * - Man's Nature of greed**

'How much do you want,' Candide asked this character,'to take me stright to Venice, along with sevants, baggage, and those two sheep over there?' The skipper agreed ona price of ten thousand piastres. Candid did not hesitate. 'Well, well!' said the careful Vanderdendur to himslef. 'Here is a foreigner who parts with ten thousand piastres straight off! He must be fairly rich.' Returning a moment later, he informed Candide that he could not sail for less thatn twenty thousand.' pg.53 middle//

2. Does Swift, in //Gulliver's Travels,// attack any of the targets you identified in question 1? Find passages from Swift's book as evidence. Then write a paragraph for each one, and discuss the similarities and/or differences. - Satire of the British government //Lilliputian's government type// - Satire of human nature //Gulliver with the Yahoos and Houhynhyms//

3. Write from each of the starred roles in our literature circles, and discuss your section from each point of view.

---> I felt that this quote was making fun about the fact of himself actually getting sold by his mother and his mother telling that it is an honour and fortune, but he says he doesn't know if he got his fortune. So I thought this was it was kind of showing the writers satire toward slavery(?)
 * New Critic:** //'Yet when my mother sold me for ten Patagonian ecus on the coast of Guinea, she told me: "My child, give thanks to our fetishes, and worship them always, for they will make your life happy; you have the honour to be a slave to our white masters, and therefore you are making the fortune of your father and mother." Alas! I don't know if made their fortune, but they certainly didn't make mine.'' pg. 52, top//


 * Historians:** This book shows that man desires and wants priceful things, which also meens that man has a nature of greed. I thought that this showed at that time of government many people like nobles are in their place because of they know that the higher ranked people want diamonds and other priceful stuff and give them to them.