Banning The Book 'Candide' By Voltaire

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James Howe once said, “Banning books is another form of bullying. It’s all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.” This quote means that depriving people from the knowledge in books is an additional way of bullying, and proves that there might be possibility for change which certain people are afraid of. Some people would agree with this quote because to deprive someone from acquiring the knowledge that is stored on book. This relates to Candide by Voltaire because this book was banned because of its controversial content. The banning of this book limited the knowledge of the time period and how the challenges religion and governments had. The 1759 book Candide was banned shortly after its

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