@profalves_qcc I’m having trouble detecting where the satire is. Or is just the idea of this made up country imitating Postcolonial Nigeria satire itself ?
@profalves_qcc The dialogue said isn’t as elaborate as prior ones as someone said it is easier to understand. It seems almost British style English to me maybe.
@profalves_qcc Anyways Henry’s behavior to refuse to talk to his brother to stop talking to Isabella comes across as underhanded. Maybe he views a chance for his own brother to find a wife as well.
@profalves_qcc So this whole situation just makes me think Isabella befriended Catherine to get a man. Maybe this is what she does and was her plan try to get buddy buddy with girls to see if they have brothers to meet them. And along the way she meets captain Frederick Tilley and prefers him.
@profalves_qcc The character I see myself relating to more is is Henry. Going back to chapter 3 where he pokes fun at small talk by asking these cliché vague questions. I can definitely see myself doing same thing poking fun at this trying to make someone laugh.
@profalves_qcc All that Candide goes through proves this theory wrong. From him being banished from the castle to even the end where he gets to marry Cunegonde and still doesn’t seem happy.
@profalves_qcc The ending of the story just makes me think of the teachings that Pangloss has taught Candide. Pangloss’s theory of how this world is the best of all possible worlds this whole story just contradicts that.
@profalves_qcc My favorite lines from the Lady Wortley Montague version was “ I’ll so describe your dressing room The very Irish shall not come” She answered short, I’m glad you’ll write. You’ll furnish the paper when I shite.” I find her response funny as it refers back to the other poem.
@profalves_qcc I find this line stands out the most to me because I find it funny how someone’s feces makes Strephon so disgusted.
I mean we all do it so why does her feces make him so surprised to dismiss his feelings over her that simply.