Candide: Voltaire's View of Human Condition Voltaire’s Candide provokes a horrific tales of its characters actions that forces the reader to feel in a strange mood, such as laughter. Although, he instructs the reader to be in serious attention of the story’s point of view. This philosophical tale is based on the art of black comedy. Voltaire’s primary purpose in writing Candide was to demolish the theory of optimism in which he used exaggeration. For instance, the carnage of the Bulgar-Abar conflict, the tempest and earthquake, the apparent death of Cunegonde and the actual death of her parents, the experiences during the Inquisition, are all noticeable events that have been described in exaggerated terms. The subtitle, “optimism,” used to Candide in which is used of the philosophy of Leibritz was to call attention to the points relevant to an u....

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