Francois Marie Arouet, pen name Voltaire, is a great poet. playwright and critic. In his novel, Candide, he attacks bigotry and narrowmindedness. I consider Candide a contreversial satire where Voltarire describes the exploits of a naive and an unsophisticated young man whose blissful optimism is duanted by a series of terrible and "hilarious" experiences. Intially, the youthful Candide approaches life with great optimism taught to him by his tutor Pangloss. The novel has a cynical and ironic tone. I believe that Volataire's sarcacism is due to his dissatisfaction of the world he is living in. He condemns religious fanaticism and believes that the world is not the "best of all worlds" as Pangloss believs.
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