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Essay Archive - Candide: Voltaire's View of Human Condition
Candide: Voltaire's View of Human Condition
Voltaire’s Candide provokes a horrific tales of its characters actions that forces the reader to feel in a strange mood, such as laughter. Although, he instructs the reader to be in serious attention of the story’s point of view. This philosophical tale is based on the art of black comedy.
Voltaire’s primary purpose in writing Candide was to demolish the theory of optimism in which he used exaggeration. For instance, the carnage of the Bulgar-Abar conflict, the tempest and earthquake, the apparent death of Cunegonde and the actu....
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