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Compare/contrast Tartuffe to Candide. Though different genres, how do they function in similar ways?

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Moliere's Tartuffe and Voltaire's Candide share a number of Enlightenment-themed plot points. Rather than portraying the "common" people in their stories, the authors in both stories question and criticize the nature of social hierarchies, focusing on those who belong to the royal or upper classes.

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