Journal 4: Candide by Voltaire

Read Chapter 26-30 pages 236-246. In a 1/2 page journal answer ONE of the TWO following prompts. Additionally, find two sentences with appropriate pronoun use/agreement and write the 2 sentences at the END of your journal.  Underline the subject and the pronoun.  

Prompt 1:

At the end of the novel, Martin says, “Let us set to work and stop proving things, for that is the only way of rendering life bearable” (p. 246), echoing the Turkish farmer who says, “our work keeps at bay the three great evils: boredom, vice, and necessity” (p. 245). Do you think Voltaire is endorsing this view? Why would doing physical work be preferable to the life of a philosopher?  Provide 2 quotes from the story to support your answer. 

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Prompt 2:

Near the end of the book, while Pangloss was “being hanged, and dissected, and beaten, and made to row in a galley,” he still holds firm to his original views that this is the best of all possible worlds. “I am a philosopher after all. It would not do for me to recant” (p. 242). What are the dangers in holding beliefs that are impermeable to reality, that do not alter according to actual experience? Provide 2 quotes from the story to support your answer.