![]() ![]() When Candide is in battle Voltaire mocks the army by calling them heroes while describing the explicit and violent act the soldiers are doing. The Seven Years War ended with The Treaty of Paris in 1763. The Seven Years War or French and Indian War from 1754 to 1763 involving Every great European power at the time EX: France Britain etc. ![]() The Seven Years War was also another event that helped influence the creation of Candide. After the shipwreck with Candide and Pangloss, they wash up to a town in ruins from the earthquake scavenging for food to survive. This earthquake followed by the tsunamis killed 60,000 people and destroyed around a couple thousand buildings. Many events influenced Voltaire to write Candide one major event was the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 this occurred in the kingdom of Portugal. Things needed to change for the greater good and everything was not alright. ![]() He believed social progress could be achieved through reason and that no authority-religious or political or otherwise-should be immune to challenge by reason.”1 Voltaire most likely wrote Candide to show the world or naive people the horrors peasants would go through or corruption there is in the world. “Voltaire believed above all in the efficacy of reason. ![]()
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