... of affective satirists who ingeniously employ thoughtful laughter at its best, a few prominent examples come to mind: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Swift's Modest Proposal, and most certainly Voltaire's Candide. In Candide there are endless examples of thought provoking humor, but this paper will concentrate on one character that perhaps best embodies the idea, Pangloss. Pangloss is an unremitting optimist, who ... aspect of their world. A proposal, that proved in the situation of Jacques, to be quite fatal. Pangloss's ridiculous optimism continues straight on till the last pages of the n...

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