Voltaire: Candide
The Use of Satire to Ridicule the Old Regime
- Leibniz's styled optimism
- Pangloss as Leibniz's spokesman
- Sarcastic absurdity to justify reform
- Ridicules the position and power of aristocracy
- Kings without kingdoms
- Contrast the Baron's position from beginning to end.
- Ridicules the church
- Infidelity of priest
- Protestants and their lack of charity in Holland
- Jesuits and Jews in very bad light
- Philosophies of justification as opposed to action
- Critics and experts a.k.a. Pococurante
- Houdon
sculpture of Voltaire
The Utopia of Eldorado
- Deist view of ideal society
- Socialistic
- What are the implications in post-revolutionary France?
"We must tend our gardens"
- Work is better than vain speculation
- A deist motif
Humanities
Resource of Mark Hunter