life dodging punishment for his satirical tongue. Voltaire wrote against religious persecution,

criticized the powerful individuals and condemned their institutions. Voltaire uses mockery in

his book Candide to express his bitterness towards nobility, philosophy, the church, and

Throughout the book we come across a lot of characters. One in which is a baron

named Thunder-ten-tronckn. An awful name to begin with, but this is Voltaire's way of

mocking pretensions nobility. He is not an especially rich baron, but a baron non the less, who

Some common words found in the essay are:
Pangloss Pangloss, , people suffering,
Approximate Word count = 459
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)