Candide Essays

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Candide

Voltaire’s Candideis a critical satire, focusing on the Age of Enlightnement and its central themes, including reason, philosophy, and theology. He specifically critiques optimistic philosophy, which argues that this world is the best of all...

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Candide

Voltaire’sCandideis more than an example of Enlightenment philosophy meeting Enlightenment-era fiction. It needs to be set into the context of the broader historical and global era in which it was produced. This essay explores how Candideis an...

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Candide

If satirical comedy can accurately shed light on the flaws of society, it seems that hypocrisy in its many forms, is the first and hardest of them to fall. Voltaire’s 1759 satire, Candide does just this as it pokes holes in the many dysfunctions...