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Stephanie Ash

Both novels explore the idea of virtue and freedom by using outsiders from French society in much the same way Candide's journey uses an outsider's journey to comment on French society and its failings. Both women question their place in society, are we what others would make of us or are we what we would make of ourselves? Can freedom and virtue be stripped away from you? Can they be ruined or tarnished not by your own actions but by the actions and sayings of other people? In the end, we all have to decide for ourselves if we will let others confine us and define us as they wish, or take the more difficult path of definining ourselves.

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