... and more reasonable order. Although the Enlightenment consisted of many other philosophers and social commentators, from countries such as England and America, these four made the biggest impact on the French people, and played the largest role in driving them to a revolution. Voltaire, a philosopher, social critic, and probably the most influential of the philosophes, championed reason, justice and human ... were more conservative than those of the other main philosophes. He articulated and further developed the theory of separation of powers, which became the basis for the United Sta...

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... Throug! h these characters Moliere is able to attack the religious hypocrisy. In the finale of Tartuffe, Moliere uses a common literary technique during the Neo-classical period called, "Deux Ex Machina." A French term in 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 ... , or optimism versus pessimism. Ibsen is a realist; he depicts modern problems by presenting the entire picture of a situation. A brilliant example of the Realistic movement is found in Dostoyevsky's m...

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