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This 5 page paper discusses the use of satire in the works of Voltaire and Cervantes. Specific examples offered. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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use satire to poke fun at their contemporarys theories. In keeping with this, then, Don Quixote takes on the established genre of the romantic chivalric tale. Likewise, Candide offers similar
satirical elements and in the end serves to illustrate some of the more poignant truths of the human condition. Cervantes, Don Quixote concerns itself with the deep, troubling questions of
human life, but still manages to harness the entertainment value of the story. At one and the same time, it delights and entertains us while engaging effortlessly with the deepest
and most abstract questions of theology, cosmology and metaphysics. With great sweeping speeches Don Quixote satirizes and romanticizes chivalry, while exampling and asserting those very values in his modes of
behavior. Voltaires work, Candide dwells on several universal messages as regard the human condition. One has to particularly note the fact that on a number of occasions one thinks that
his traveling companions are dead, when in fact, they are not. They manage to escape miraculously or to have managed to survive any number of terrible circumstances. In this respect,
then, Voltaire is satirizing the human capacity for foolishness and self-delusion. In Don Quixote, the pairing of Don Quixote and Sancho was a direct satire of two ideas and in
this particular case emphasized the role of the hero. Sancho is reminiscent of the modern world that cannot conceive or begin to fathom the morals of an outdated time. "Now,
se?or, just see how Heaven, touched by my tears and my pleas has ordained that Rocinante shall not move"(Cervantes, 112). Consider the character of Don Quixote. Here is this elderly
man who in his own bumbling way tries to put his antiquated ideas into action in a busy, selfish world, and is constantly ridiculed for his efforts. But, when
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