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    Use Of Satire In Candide

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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 towards optimism primarily arose as a consequence of the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon. He felt a deep compassion for the thousands of victims

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    like the plague. However‚ in Candide there are many examples of this. Not outright violence‚ but rather the type of violence that is referenced early on in the article‚ violence that is usually the byproduct of humankind striving to reach some other‚ more important goal. In CandideCandide does not go out of his way to kill‚ he ends up killing men‚ blinded by his desire to reunite with Cunegonde. The group murders described in this article remind me heavily of Candide‚ with Voltaire

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    Travel

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    travelling people easier by decreasing the distance by the swiftness of vehicles. The prevailing journeys do not cost more than those were in the earlier days. The purposes of travelling are different for different people. There are some people who travel for the sake of pleasure. The people that are heavily burdened either at their domestic front or at their offices move too far off places for relieving their worries and anxieties. The poets and writers make a trip to distant places for collection

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    Without careful scrutiny‚ the story of Candide appears no more than an average tale of an average man in search of fulfillment. In the absence of historical context‚ the eloquence of Voltaire’s words carries little substance and his vivid description remains empty. While the story of Candide is itself captivating‚ the work carries a far deeper significance. Candide primarily serves to reveal Voltaire’s Enlightenment philosophies through the satire of numerous 18th century institutions and realities

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    Without careful scrutiny‚ the story of Candide appears no more than an average tale of an average man in search of fulfillment. In the absence of historical context‚ the eloquence of Voltaire’s words carry little substance and his vivid description remains empty. While the story of Candide is itself captivating‚ the work carries a far deeper significance. Candide primarily serves to reveal Voltaire’s Enlightenment philosophies through the satire of numerous 18th century institutions and realities

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    A French philosopher and writer‚ Voltaire‚ wrote the novella Candide in the late 17th Century. Candide is a dark comedy describing many atrocities and dark events throughout the life of the eternal optimist‚ Candide‚ the main character. A similar masterpiece‚ Tartuffe‚ was written in the 17th century by Moliere as a satirical display of religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe is a production of vice and virtue that involves a witty and brusque family that idolizes a single religious figure who tries to insinuate

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    Voltaire’s Candide

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    The Human Tissue Act 65 of 1983 regulates all aspects regarding organ transplants. This Act was last amended in 1989. Since then medical science has developed so big in size and to such an extent that organ transplants today are almost routine operations in many hospitals. Unfortunately the current methods of procuring human organs are not supplying the demand. A new approach‚ the commercialization of human organs for transplantation is a possibility with the potential to supply one hundred

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    Swift Gulliver Book 4

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    PART IV. A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS. CHAPTER I. [The author sets out as captain of a ship. His men conspire against him‚ confine him a long time to his cabin‚ and set him on shore in an unknown land. He travels up into the country. The Yahoos‚ a strange sort of animal‚ described. The author meets two Houyhnhnms.] 1.1 I continued at home with my wife and children about five months‚ in a very happy condition‚ if I could have learned the lesson of knowing when I was well. I left my poor

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    example of an optimist and pessimist view is in Voltaire’s Candide‚ tells the story of Candide an illegitimate nephew of a German baron. He lives and grows up at a baron’s castle. His teacher Pangloss teaches him. Pangloss teaches hint that this world is “the best of all possible worlds”. Candide falls in love with the barons beautiful and young daughter named Cunégonde. One day‚

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