Hey, guys. This is going to be a review of Candide by Voltaire.
So, I read this book for my humanities class.
I knew absolutely nothing about it going into it.
I had heard of Voltaire before; I knew he was a French writer; and that
was basically all I knew. I knew nothing about Candide or
anything before I even opened it and read it.
And I was actually really surprised at how much I enjoyed this.
Um, I gave it 4 out of 5 stars.
I didn't know it was a satire. Looking at it now
all the comics on the cover make it really clear that it's a satire,
but I did not know that going into it. I figured it out
fairly early on, but like, I just
I found it really interesting, really intriguing
reading a satire from a past time period
because I feel like...
Obviously everything published in a
certain time period says a lot about
that time period,
but I think satire especially says a lot
about the time period that it's written in, and I just found that really
interesting. Obviously there are
footnotes throughout this entire thing. There's a
whole section in the back
of footnotes that help explain things
and what's going on, and there were some things in here
that I would not have gotten without the
footnotes and
and talking about it in class definitely helped.
So obviously since its a satire
on the far past, I didn't like
understand everything at first but
that's part of what makes it really interesting
to me
Parts of it I got anyway but
even the stuff I didn't get, it was intriguing to me to see
that kinda aspects
of society back then. That was a nice surprise because, like I said, I didn't know
what to expect going into this.
but I really didn't expect that much.
Because I didn't know what it was, so I'm really happy that I enjoyed it.
But I think that is all, and I will see you guys later.
Bye.
