Candide、Chapter 30の要約

起こる出来事

1. Candide accepts Cacambo’s plan to return the Baron to the galley captain, removing his opposition to the marriage.
2. The household struggles with poverty, hard labor, dissatisfaction, and idle debate, while political exiles pass their farm.
3. Paquette and Friar Giroflée arrive destitute, giving the companions more reasons to debate suffering and happiness.
4. A dervish refuses to explain human existence or evil and shuts his door on the philosophers.
5. An old farmer welcomes the travelers and explains how cultivating twenty acres protects his family from boredom, vice, and need.
6. Candide adopts the farmer’s example, and the household becomes productive as everyone contributes useful skills.

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注目するポイント

Candide answers Pangloss’s explanation of their experiences by returning to practical work. His response establishes useful action as his priority over abstract justification.

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