... 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 ... understand oneself. A combination of modern science and classicalism gave birth to Romanticism. Introducing a new outlook on life, embracing emotion before rationality. Romanticism began to show people that the En...

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