... better social structure. The followers of the Enlightenment called for rebellion against superstition, fear, and prejudice. They attacked the aristocracy and the church. Candide reflects Voltaire's lifelong hatred towards Christian regimes of power and the arrogance of nobility. Voltaire strongly opposed certain Enlightenment ideas about social class. Some Enlightenment thinkers wanted to keep the enlightened monarch instead of changing the formation of society ... than his perception of the Church. He continually attacked many members of the bourgeois about their pride and conceit in t...

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