According to enlightenment-era european writers, literature's role was to delight and what?
a. proselytize
b. instruct
c. correct
d. destroy

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").