Voltaire’s Views of Religion and State Expressed In Candide Essay

Voltaires Views of Religion and State Expressed In Candide through and throughout Candide, Voltaire uses derision as a tool to reveal his controversial views regarding religion and State. He reveals the corruption, hypocrisy and immorality present in the way in which organisation and religion operated during his lifetime. Most particularly, he criticizes violent government demeanor (ie war) and the behaviour of members of the aristocracy, who constituted the bulk of high ranking government and religious leaders. Through satirical comments made in Candide, Voltaire exposes the corruption and greed rife in the government. He too reveals his displeasure with the manner in which the parliamentary governing body operated, expressing the ineffectiveness and ineptness of power hungry politicians who refused to agree or compromise. let us work without arguing, that is the only way to make life endurable. (Voltaire 1947). Voltaire also makes a poi... ...ugh powerful, intelligent use of satire, Voltaire makes his personal views clear and encourages the reader to scrap the way in which religion and the State operate. BibliographyAndrews, Wayne. Voltaire. unused York New Directions Pub. 1981 Gay, Peter. Voltaires Politics. New York Random House,1965 Weitz, Morris. Philosophy in literature. Detroit Wayne State Univ. Press.1963 Volatire, Francois-Marie, Candide, Penguin Publishers, New York, 1947.