Ideals Satirized In Candide
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Ideals Satirized by Voltaire in "Candide"
Voltaire's Candide is a satire of life before and during the enlightenment period, a black comedy, this story often makes light of religious purgings, executions, the church in general, royalty, government, nobility, ideals of love, war and the country of France. About the only things not mock ....
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.... six men who claim to be ex-kings. Each of the kings have been dethroned by war, family or chance, and some have been in prison. Its ironic that all these men are sitting, having dinner together, it shows that even the kings of the world are human and can be hit by hard times. Theodore of Corsica mentions, "I used to coin currency, and now i dont have a cent"(393). Voltaire pokes fun at the royals here while most writers would have ....
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