ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immorality, Theodicy
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This is when the protagonists go through a u shape train of loss and gain. Providential torn of everything that they have (odysseus: losses everything) then they gain everything again (odysseus finds home and lives happily) Candide: this is a romance where the events take their toll. When candide is going to save c___ with her brother, the brother moves away from traditional romance due to his own self importance. The story is a tragedy: the logic of romance is emptied by a lot of its content? by having horrible things happen to the characters. The purpose of the story is to shock and offend. If all things happen because of certain reasons and causes, if thigns happen because of. Causal change, if god is all powerful (and god lies behind everything) and god is good, All of his causal changes lead to something that is good: god works in mysterious ways.