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Why is the setting of candide important

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Throughout the novel Voltaire employs the element of setting to signify the importance of distorted societal values. Candide grows up in beautiful castle in Westphalia; he is a young man of suspicious birth. Voltaire begins with this setting so he can expose the warped values that are related to social status.

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