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Candy Study Guide

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by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg
About 5 pages (1,347 words)
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Just as Voltaire's Candide had mocked naive eighteenth-century philosophy that "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds," so does Candy mock modern permissive ideas that free love, frantic travel, and rabid experimentation in religions, mores, and life-styles are eagerly-to-be-fostered and endured. Beneath the masks of most "mod" performers is merely the rampant libido of another me-first generation of individuals who will exploit any and all ideas and men (and especially women) for purposes of selfaggrandizement. Yet, disquietingly, as.....

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Candy from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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