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The Child-like Scientist: A Study of the Similarities Between Jonathan Swifts' Gulliver's Travels and Voltaire's Candide in Reference to Satire Developed through Naivete

Title: The Child-like Scientist: A Study of the Similarities Between Jonathan Swifts' Gulliver's Travels and Voltaire's Candide in Reference to Satire Developed through Naivete
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The Child-like Scientist: A Study of the Similarities Between Jonathan Swifts' Gulliver's Travels and Voltaire's Candide in Reference to Satire Developed through Naivete
A child has the ability to make the most critical and objective observation on society and the behavior of man. How is this possible? A child has yet to mature and lacks proper education and experience. However, it is for this very reason that a child would make the perfect social scientist; his or her naivete may provide an excellent means of objective criticism and most often satire. A child's curious nature and hunger for …showed first 75 words of 2244 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2244 total…The Evolution of Gulliver's Character." Norton Critical Editions. *Maurois, Andre'. Voltaire. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1932. *Mylne, Vivienne. The Eighteenth-Century French Novel. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1965. *Pasco, Allan H. Novel Configurations A Study of French Fiction. Birmingham: Summa Publications, 1987. *Quintana, Ricardo "Situation as Satirical Method." Norton Critical Editions: Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels. Ed. Robert A Greenberg. New York: W. W. Norton and Company Inc., 1961. *Van Doren, Carl. Swift .New York: The Viking Press, 1930.

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