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Aristocracy in Literature

            In the literature we have read this year, aristocracy has been criticized as being cruel, unequal, and corrupt. Aristocracy created social classes; it put people in different groups based on education, ability, wealth, and social prestige. It meant that the social rank of your family would tell where you stood in society, either at the top or at the bottom. People at the top were considered an "elite" group of people with the most privileges and the most power in the society. The upper class were also the most hated in society and the most frowned upon people in society because of their beliefs that they were better than everyone else in society and anyone outside the nobility were considered below or inferior compared to them. This obviously caused a lot of problems for people outside the ruling government so people began to revolt against their governments and started making their own reform movements so they could see a more equal and stable way of life. .
             Author Francois-Marie Arouet 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 he was surrounded by the rich and powerful more, so he was able to see the upper classes thoughts and beliefs on society. Still Voltaire's words attacked the church and the state with intensity, and earned him widespread attention from the community. During his lifetime, he was relentless, always criticizing the powerful individuals and institutions. The poor and oppressed idolized him, he wrote against tyranny and religious persecution fearlessly knowing he may get arrested.


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