Candide The Enlightenment eighteenth century was the age of reason. This age involved the scientific method and was the understanding of the workings of the universe. This is when man began to question various aspects of life such as science religion and philosophy. People believed that Gods no longer were really a thought because gods don’t make storms, aren’t angry and now it’s a force of nature. Looked at how could a …showed first 75 words of 297 total…

…showed last 75 words of 297 total…and values are a lot like today’s society. The idea that optimism isn’t pessimism and that in all good there is bad. With lots of money and lots of gold greed comes about. People have free will, free will to do what they want and live how they want to live. As all these characters represent various aspects of lives they also have different meanings and different ways of looking at life itself.