Moliere And Voltaire Analysis

Moliere and Voltaire have several things in common. They both are French writers and passionate to write stories about religion. For example, Moliere wrote “Tartuffe or the Imposter” and Voltaire wrote “Candide or Optimism”. Those stories are related to the religion belief. Voltaire story stated that "As far as human concerned, God gave them reason and then left them free to use it". It has happened in the Moliere story (Tartuffe) if Orgon had faith in God he would not bring the deceiver into his house. Because he did not use his sense of reasoning that lead him to the problem he was facing. He meets with an imposter was not the God will, but since he believed Tartuffe more than anyone else. It was just a test to show that you rather than trust a mysterious person than to trust a human being because people can betray you or say something that are not true any time and any day. It was the same thing happened in the Candide story because Candide, always heard Pangloss said, "Baron Castle was the best of all castled and the best of all possible." Does this statement true in all the castle he went? No, this statement was not true when Candide went to Bulgars except when he went to …show more content…
God lets certain things happen to see our faith, let take the example of the Anabaptist man Jacques, after so many good things he had done for Candide and Pangloss, why this innocent man drowned? I believe it happened to show Candide that bad things sometimes happen to a good person. Also, sometimes when we are in the problems we asked God for a thing, but when we get them, we realized that it was not the things we wanted. For instance, when Candide in Bulgar he wanted to live happily and peacefully, but he did not have the chance yet to experience it. When he gets to the Eldorado, he gets all he wanted in his life except for his love one so what he does? He just gives up one thing for another necessary