AN ENDURING CONCEPT

"... two very pretty girls, neatly dressed, brought in chocolate... Candide could not help praising their beauty and graceful carriage. "The creatures are all right," said the senator; "I amuse myself with them sometimes, for I am heartily tired of the women of the town, their coquetry, their jealousy, their quarrels, their humors, their meanness, their pride, and their folly; I am weary of making sonnets, or of paying for sonnets to be made on them; but after all, these two girls begin to grow very indifferent to me"" (118).

RELATIONSHIPS

SUPERIOR

HIGH-CLASS

POWER

QUESTIONS

• Are women free from high expectations and objectification?
• Does such treatment also apply to men?