... 's 'Candide' can be taken as a perfect example of the author's skill as an 18th Century Enlightenment writer. In this extract, there are several ways in which the structure, style, language and context reflect the novels principal motifs and themes and these features of the work combine to signify a few central ideas that Voltaire believed in. These elements include dialogue, rapid and clear sentences, unadorned but meticulously ... , exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices through the use of dialogue and character development. The Baron's sudden...

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... shows his hated for two anti-Enlightenment views: war and religion. He also shows the importance of education, reason, and science throughout the book, which are two very important Enlightenment ideas. Candide goes through several experiences with the military that are unsettling to him. Voltaire shows his hatred of religion throughout the novel and the only place where religion exists is in the perfect world of Eldorado. Candide's first unpleasant encounter with ... . A major part of the Enlightenment was science. Through science, philosophers at the time discovered the laws of nature. ...

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... better known as "Voltaire" grew up in a middle class family in Paris where most of the people at this time were living in poverty. During his upbringing the French Aristocracy ruled with an iron fist, but at the same time the Enlightenment Movement was spreading ideas about the equality and basic rights of man and the importance of reason and scientific objectivity. This sparked his career as being a controversial writer, critiquing ... the nobility, philosophy, and the church in his writing. As he became more prominent as an author ... ...

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... after. Voltaire wrote Candide, during a time of much poverty and turmoil in France. Voltaire was very significant to the Age of Enlightenment of the 18th Century, and so he wrote Candide with very much accuracy to the time period, in order to reflect his support for certain Enlightenment ideas. An example of this was Voltaire's presentation of the Enlightenment idea of Optimism, " 'Optimism,' said Cacambo ... Candide says, " 'It would have been better to stay in the Paradise of Eldorado instead of returning to this accursed Europe. How right you are, my dear Martin! Everything ...

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