Differences And Similarities Between Tartuffe And Candide

Moliere and Voltaire are both well renowned writers and share many similarities between one another. One of the bluntest and obvious similarities Moliere and Voltaire share would be their lack of authority. Moliere Jean- Baptiste Poquelin had to get King Louis XIV to allow him to keep producing his work. Voltaire Francois-Marie Arouet had to run away from the censorship in England and France. Voltaire would go to the extreme extent and hand out personal copies of his work and only give it to close friends just to avoid punishment. Another similarity Voltaire and Moliere show in the two stories assigned is their main characters in Tartuffe, Orgon, and Candide, both of the men thought the were correct. Candide thought his passive everything …show more content…
Minus Tartuffe they all had their dignity. Candide never changed or acted different during any of the parts, even when things got bad he still believed there was a reason why things happen. Cleante stood up to Orgon on many occasions in the story but never rubbed the fact that Orgon was wrong about Tartuffe. The crulity the main charaters went through in Tartuffe and Candide are similar in some ways as well. Orgon was stubern and wouldn’t listen to anyone about Tartuffe. Do to Orgon’s stubbornness he nearly lost his home and all of his belongings. If Orgon would have listened to everyone in his family none of the problems would have happen. Candide start off the story by kissing Cunegonde even though it happened really quick he knew it was going to end bad. If Candide didn’t kiss Cuegonde he would have never been kicked out of the house. The relationship partners of the main characters in both the stories also had to go through so hard trails for their loved one. In Candide, Cunegonde had to stay with the governor, Don Fernando D’Ibaraa y Figueroa y Mascarenes Y Lampourdos y Souza for Candide’s life and made him leave so he wouldn’t be killed by the Grand