Zadig

wouldn’t be very entertaining. Another example of symbolism found in the short story Hop Frog is the way Poe symbolizes the king in the story. In the opening description of the king is that he would have “preferred Rabelais ' 'Gargantua ' to the 'Zadig ' of Voltaire,” a giant king with a large capacity for food and drinks, which shows that the king has a lack of control and animal desires. His seven ministers were all noted for their accomplishments for being jokers. They also took after the…

"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well" was just one of François-Marie Arouet's many famous quotes (Brainy Quote). Arouet, better known as Voltaire, was philosopher "who played a singular role in defining the eighteenth-century movement called the Enlightenment" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). François-Marie Arouet, also known by his pen name as Voltaire, was a famous French philosopher whom started at an early age with his studies that led…