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According to Enlightenment-era European writers, literature's role was to delight and what?

A. proselytize
B. instruct
C. correct
D. destroy

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C is the right one do it
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B. Instruct

The quintessential example of Enlightenment literature that both delights and instructs is Voltaire's Candide. Voltaire was a French philosopher from the Enlightenment era, who wrote the satire (a genre literature where social criticism is masked by humor) Candide. Candide was an attack to Leibnizian optimism.Leibniz was a German philosopher who was a pioneer of what we know today as positive thinking (i.e. "all is for the best").
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