Candide and Voltaire
“Candide ou l’optimisme” is one of the most popular novels left from the Enlightened Age of the 18th century. ... Candide is both simple in its words and complicated in the underlying meaning. The author, philosopher Francis Voltaire(Fracois-Marie Arouet) summarized his outlook on the world in several themes in Candide: Criticism of optimism, the evils of religion and aristocracy. ... Voltaire strongly opposed this theory. He viewed the optimists as blind fools who do not see the reality of the world and satirized optimism in the form of Pangloss, Candide’s tutor and devout optimist.