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Candide

Voltaire’s Candide contains many meanings that are still relevant in the present day because people today haven’t changed they way they. Voltaire used Candide’s travels and experiences to communicate his own views and opinions. In Candide, Voltaire expresses his ideas about war, women, and happiness that still apply to society today.
Voltaire viewed war as brutal and horrible because usually neither side gained much in the end. In chapter three, Voltaire illustrates how senseless war is. “First the cannon toppled about six thousand men on either side; then the muskets removed from the best of both possible worlds between nine and ten thousand scoundrels who were infesting its surface. Next the bayonet proved sufficient reason for the death of a few thousand more. The total may well have amounted to thirty thousand or so corpses.” (Voltaire, 7-8) After the war, Candide deserted the Bulgar army. As he fled, he came to an Abar village that had been destroyed by the......


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