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Voltaie and candide
Title: Voltaie and candide
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1267 | Pages: 5.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Voltaie and candide
In writing Candide Voltaire had six major themes which are optimism, the problem of evil, the role of fate or providence, free will, an attack on religion and the importance of work.
Voltaire's satire of philosophical optimism is one of the major issues of Candide. Throughout the story, satirical references to "the best of all possible worlds" contrast with natural catastrophes and human wrongdoing. A question that has been a great source of debate is …showed first 75 words of 1267 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1267 total…a belief in freedom of thought and respect for all individuals, and he maintained that literature should be useful and concerned with the problems of the day. These views made Voltaire a central figure in the 18th-century philosophical movement typified by the writers of the famous French Encyclopédie. Because he pleaded for a socially involved type of literature, Voltaire is considered the forerunner of such 20th-century writers as Jean-Paul Sartre and other French existentialists.
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