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A 5 page paper which examines which author is better at presenting a satire on religion, Voltaire in “Candide,” or Swift in “Gulliver’s Travels” Part IV. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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civilizations history. It seems that no subject was safe from the satirical comments of the intellectuals who sought something different in relationship to society. The government, religion, society, and many
other issues were the focus of a great deal of satire in such works. Two works which focus on various aspects of society are Voltaires "Candide" and Swifts "Gullivers Travels."
The following paper examines the two, separately, as they make satirical comments on religion. The paper then finishes with a section that argues how Voltaires work was far more successful
in offering up religion as a satirical subject. Candide According to one critic, "Candide is an outlandishly humorous, far-fetched tale by Voltaire satirizing the optimism espoused by the
philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment" (PlanetPapers [1]). In this tale he presents the reader with a young man who embarks on many different adventures, meeting with evil and disaster
along the way. His character is a satirical comment on how the people during the age of Enlightenment felt that everything was easily rationalized somehow and that there is an
optimistic answer to everything. "Though he was by no means a pessimist, Voltaire refused to believe that what happens is always for the best" (PlanetPapers [1]). This was was, essentially,
a "scathing response" to those who followed ignorantly (Family Education Network). In this simple critique we can see that religion is very much a focus of such attitudes. People could
always use religion to answer questions and to ensure they felt safe in assuming that everything happened for a reason and that it was for the good of all. In
this the painful and evil realities in the world were often merely chalked up to Gods plan perhaps, and this left people with no responsibility to do anything about conditions
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