... which all the character's problems are solved by some miracle. The king made the intervention. Although it is very unrealistic it was a way of praising the monarch. In the novel, Candide, Voltaire uses many literary techniques and concepts to prove his point. Candide is a humorous satire, criticizing the optimism adopted by the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. In the story ... , Candide is taught, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Voltaire was not a pessimist he just criticized certain aspects of the Enlightenment idealism. Voltaire uses Pangloss, Candide...

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