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Comparing Gulliver's Travel And Candide

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Jonathans Swift “Gulliver’s Travel” and Voltaire’s “Candide” are typical literature works during the enlightenment period. Enlightenment thinkers distinguished humans by the particular faculty of reason unlike animals, humans had the capacity to think through relationships and between objects or events (Simon, The Norton Anthology World Literature). What is so unique about these two authors is that they both use satire in their literary works. A brief definition of satire is the use of irony and sarcasm in a narrative. Therefore, these to pieces of work have similarities. Also due to different author styles, there are many differences between the two novels and the characters. Gulliver in “Gulliver’s Travels” and Candide in the novel “Candide” …show more content…

The two characters’ use satire to bring out the weakness of a human society. Gulliver has to admit that human beings are actually just yahoo’s and Candide faces many encounters throughout his journeys which leads a reader to believe that there is corruption in human beings. Both of these character question human nature throughout the narratives. Not only the use of satire throughout the stories but Gulliver and Candide had to learn and adapt to new surroundings constantly. Throughout the narrative they both jumped around to a new location in almost every chapter. While on these journeys they had to overcome many encounters which made them have to learn and adapt to new situation. For example, when Gulliver has to learn the horse’s language which was a huge accomplishment for him since he had a way to communicate and adapt to a new culture. An example for Candide is how when ever he went to a new country he basically had to find a clue or someone that help him guide his way to finding Cunegonde. Which also shows how much love Candide had for Cunegonde, he never gave up on finding her. There are many more similarities these two present in the narrative, but there are also some differences between the two of

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