Candide The Satire Of An Age.

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to make them Enlightened. For example L’Hospital’s a French Noble had in his “possession” mathematicians that developed new ways of taking limits (a Calculus idea). Yet in today's society we call this way “L’Hospital’s Rule,” not Bernoulli’s rule who is the one who “invented” it (Stewart 310).
Candide is consistently being brainwashed by reason (Pangloss) saying that we live in “the best of Yet it quite obviously that he does not. For how can there be, in the best of all worlds, war, slavery and many more abominations. Half-way through the book it would appear that Candide has given up his optimism when he looked at the Negro slave. “Oh Pangloss... I’ll have to give up your optimism at last” (73). But to the distress of the readers he has not given up his chafing optimism. “Since I found you [an Eldoradian sheep laden with stones], I’m sure I can find Cunegnde again” (79). Thus we see that he has quickly recovered his optimism. Voltaire is using Candide's blatant optimism to relate ...

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