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As depicted in his novel Candide, a French satire written in the eighteenth-century, Voltaire stood as an indisputably witty writer. Throughout Candide, Voltaire targeted philosophical optimism, war, and religion: what he considered to be the ills of the world. His primary purpose in writing Candide was to oppose the philosophical theory of optimism. This anger … Read more
Voltaire’s novella, Candide, uses satire to discuss and criticise philosophical Optimism, the prevalent Catholic philosophy during his time period, the Enlightenment era. Voltaire himself was known to oppose this theory, and employed caricatural figures in his writing, such as the characters of Pangloss and Martin, to mock the ideas that they stand for. The old … Read more
Despite being written over two hundred years ago, Voltaire’s Candide addresses many issues that are to this day controversial and widely discussed. Concepts like Rationalism exist within religion and sociological controversies like war, science and human rights are still in existence today. Although within the topics mentioned by Voltaire there are slight differences in what … Read more
Mr. Hlawaty, A main struggle I had with this essay was the open-endedness of it. I found it difficult to come up with a dynamic research question and furthermore develop an adequate thesis out of that question, because I was often uncertain about whether or not I was doing it “right. ” I worried that … Read more
