Candide
Mazzio 1 Becky Mazzio Mrs. Dawson AP Literature 1 February 2000 On November 21, 1694, Francois-Marie Arouet, otherwise known as Voltaire, was born in Paris. The youngest of five, son to Francois and Marie Arouet, Voltaire grew up in a household that had come to know the pleasantries of upper class french society. Marie, his mother, had gained the family access to Louis XIV court through her realtives. Because of Voltaire’s priviledged lineage he was able to study under the Abbe de Chateaneuf, at the Louis-le-Grand Jesuit College in Paris. Voltaire spoke very highly of his Abbe in later years. After ten years at school, he was sent to study law in Paris under his fathers orders. Early the ...
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horatian sarcasm towards the aristocracy of France, whether it was truly his work or not. This is how Voltaire once again found himself in the Bastille. Falsely accused of the authorship of a politically abrasive poem, he was imprisoned. Once released Voltaire was forced to travel to England, but returned to France three years later, in 1729, and began his prolific career. One of Voltaire’s most notable pieces is , published in 1759. It is a satire of many things, especially war, religion and those who hold optimism through a life of tereble hardships. Voltaire used his life experiences to promote a change in societies view of themselves by attacking the optimism that left so many blind to the real world and what he thought to be the path to contentedness. Between 1750 and 1753 Voltaire stayed with Frederick II of Prussia, also known as Frederick the Great. Fredericks reign had been that of a warrior king. He had started conflicts in Europe that led to the war of the Austrian ...
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and by the end of the book he had lost more than he had gained. (green voltaire) Voltaire finds war to be the same everywhere, his use of the words, “international law,” and, “ natural law,” prove this. “The Bulgars burned the Avars village in accordance with International law.”( ) It was declared, by the old woman, that international law involved searching for diamonds where, “…we women usually allow nothing but the nozzle of an enema.” ( pg.43 ) The search was done by the Knight of Malta. Cacambo finally states, “…for natural law teaches us to kill our neighbors and that’s how people behave all over the world.” ( pg 61) This belief may be attributed to the many wars that plagued ...
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