According to Enlightenment-era European writers, literature's role was to delight and what?

A. proselytize

B. instruct

C. correct

D. destroy

C is the right one do it

B. Instruct

The quintessential example of Enlightenment literature that both delights and instructs is Voltaire's Candide. Voltaire was a French philosopher from the Enlightenment era, who wrote the satire (a genre literature where social criticism is masked by humor) Candide. Candide was an attack to Leibnizian optimism. Leibniz was a German philosopher who was a pioneer of what we know today as positive thinking (i. e. "all is for the best").