Gulliver's Travels Voltaire Analysis

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Voltaire vs. Swift
Satire is the use of exposing contemporary issues in a humorous way. Voltaire’s “Candide” and Swift’s “Gullivers Travels” are two great stories labeled as satirical. Swift’s “Gullivers Travels” takes Gulliver on a journey to find a better place once his business fails, searching for a utopia. In Voltaire’s “Candide” Candide is an optimistic also searching for a better life once he is thrown out his own castle. Both of these stories have many similarities but they do differ as well. “Candide” and “Gullivers Travels” both share common characterisitcs in their characters, travel to outside societies that differ from their own, and have different views at the end of their journeys. Candide and Gulliver have common characteristics …show more content…

Candide and Gulliver both had different outlooks on their journeys. Gulliver leaves his journey by believing that there are better societies out there and his is not one of them. He is not very fond of his societies ways and he felt that his travels concluded that for him; “I began last week to permit my wife to sit at dinner with me, at the farthest end of a long table, and to answer (but with the utmost brevity) the few questions I asked her. Yet the smell of a Yahoo continuing very offensive….”(Swift 394). Candide on the other hand took more of a positive approach from his travels. He knew that the places he traveled were unrealistic and not perfect for him and he kept his optimism through the way. He ended up doing what he wanted, to live with his friends and marry Cunégonde, but he still wasn’t happy and didn’t give up hope and did he met one man; “That kind old man seems to me to have made a life for himself which is much preferable to that of those six Kings with whom we had the honour of having supper.” …. “I also know, “ said Candide, “that we must cultivate our garden”(Voltaire 512). Candide then found happiness in working hard and “cultivating his

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