LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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Question
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In Voltaire’s “Socrates, ” what do these lines from Melitus reveal about the charges against Socrates? MELITUS: “Silence. Listen, Socrates, you are accused of being a bad citizen; of corrupting the youth; of denying the plurality of the gods; of being a heretic, deist, atheist. Answer.”
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Socrates’s crimes are comprehensive.
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Some of these crimes are self-contradictory, revealing that Socrates is being framed.
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Socrates is a bad citizen because he has not been consistent.
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The inner consistency of these charges reveals that Socrates should be put to death.
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Readers know that Melitus is upset that Socrates is taking money that should go to the temple.
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Explanation:
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