A Ladies Man

Voltaire Candide

Voltaire Candide, is it going to be like a typical boring book the school makes us read? About history? With really advance and old literature words? Reading every paragraph more than 5 times to be able to understand the text. That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the cover page and the tittle, but as they say "Don't judge a book by its cover." Being able to read the first chapters in class made me realize what a funny and ironic book it is, filled with dark humor and hidden jokes. I still keep asking myself, is this book written my Voltaire Candide, the french Enlightenment philosopher? Or is the story about Candide's life and adventures. 


Reading I get to feel how Candice is a ladies man, the way he describes him with woman. How he's excitement can only happen if a lady is included. The way he mixes his work as a scientist, philosopher, physics and use the talent he has to describe a scenery with a woman and yet make it sound as a completely different thing. The illusion the author or Candide himself gives the audience is what makes the story different and extraordinary.

Each page of the first two chapters gave me the slight touch of the four elements of satire: irony, hyperbole, target, and absurdity. You get to feel the writers jokes and yet keep a serious tone that help you understand the sarcasm. Sincerely I use a lot of sarcasm with my friends and family, and it's easy to identify it. Yet it seems impossible or very hard to put it into text, you need a really deep understanding on how to manipulate the readers mind and help them understand. You require a talent that we might gain reading this book or text that include irony.