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Candide: Castle
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The outcast Candide wandered friendless and hungry, trusting in his firm belief that all must really be for the best. He soon fell into the arms of two strangers who offered him succor and then promptly pressed him into the Bulgarian army, which had invaded Westphalia. Meanwhile, the Bulgarian army had stormed the castle of Thunder-ten-tronckh, pillaging, looting, raping, and slaughtering all the inhabitants, save for the fair
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The style of Candide rushes along setting up illusions like sitting ducks and then happily shooting them down again. The sentences themselves often use this method of undercutting the value of what has just been said; for example: "The Baron was one of the most powerful lords in Westphalia, for his castle had a door and windows."
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Candide is evicted from the castle after kissing Cunégonde. Forced to travel extensively, he endures a number of unfortunate hardships, and witnesses worse. Still, he retains his Optimism for a comically long period of time. Candide serves in the army (where he is flogged), nearly gets burned in an auto-da-fé, and almost dies in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. In Candide's absence, the baron's castle is ransacked by Bulgars, Cunégonde is raped and stabbed, and her family is killed (though she survives). Candide is temporarily reunited with her, but immediately thereafter he is forced to kill a Jew and an Inquisitor who shared her as slave masters.[40]
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