Question

What was the significance of voltaire’s novel candide ?

Answer 1

Voltaire was a great philosopher and had a position of critizing Christianity, and in doing so he might be also rejecting or critizing other philosophers od his time who defended thoughts similar to what the Bible teaches. In his novel Candice he opposes the idea of being too optimistic, which Leibniz promoted.

Answer 2

The correct answer is D) it used humor to show the need for social reform.

The significance of Voltaire’s novel “Candide” is that it used humor to show the need for social reform.

The novel “Candide” exposes the cases of corruption and hypocrisy in society. Voltaire is very smart in using satire and humor to expose the situation Europe lived in during the Enlightenment. Voltaire uses those literary resources to make strong critics to hypocrisy in church. Indeed, the novel was banned in the many parts of Europe and the United States for the way ot refers to religion.

The other options of the question were, a) it called for the confiscation of church lands, b) it warned of the negative effects of freedom of speech, and c) to retold the hardships Voltaire had experienced in England.