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This is the first 1,000 characters of 453 words (1.81 pages) in the essay titled College2 andide – Francois-Marie Arouet De Voltaire (1694-1778)Black Comedy. Politically imprisoned. Son of a minor treasury official in Paris. Studied law and then spent 11 months in Bastille writing about the aristocracy. Three years in exile in England. Stayed with Frederick the Great of Prussia. Lived in Swiss and France. Also wrote Philosophical Dictionary. Candide mocks order of fiction, order of philosophic optimists. Keeps readers of balance. Demands we come to terms with the horrors that surround us. PROBLEM = human complacency. Hard to have order if have corrupt humans. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift – (1767-1745) makes others uncomfortable. Makes us aware of own moral inadequacies. Born in Dublin to English parents. Went to England to be a secretary. Met Esther Johnson, close throughout life. Political journalism earlier. Wrote for the oppressed Irish. Mentally Insane. Gulliver travels to 4 lands. 1st – Liliputt, mocks pettiness of English. 2nd Brobdingnag Giants, perniscous race. 3rd – ghosts. Stresses lies of historians with Sturdlebugs. Grow old and live forever in pure senility. Book 4 – mocks problems with reason as a guide to human conduct. Reader must decide how to judge - change – society. This is an important part of Satire. (Wrote a modest Proposal – where attacks Enlgish and Irish a like. Mocks English humanity, Irish Passivisity,) Has on Tomb “Where fierce indignation no longer tears the heart”. Oxford and Trinity... |
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