Crash Course: Literature
Lord of the Flies and Candide
S2 • E9 Apr 22, 2022
In which John Green reads William Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES and disagrees with the novel's central thesis: that everyone has evil in their hearts. In part two, John takes us through Voltaire's Enlightenment novel CANDIDE, a story about the unattainability of best of all possible worlds.