Back in the days, superstition and spiritual damnation were the main influences of everyday life. Ignorance and corruption ruled the political and religious worlds. Incompetent nobilities who were blinded by greed and gluttony ruled many kingdoms of the known world. Religion was hypocritical. Then in the eighteenth century came the Age of Enlightenment. This brought a better way of thinking to people by observation and experimentation. People began to figure out ignorance was bad for …
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…of this marriage proposal because Candide is not of the nobility. These examples prove of the nobilities? arrogance towards the common folk. Social classification was a major deal during the aristocratic times. People of the nobility did not want to socialize barely with people of lower ranks then them. It kept a form of segregation based on birth right and material things. 1 Another thing Voltaire criticized about was the greed of the nobility. They practiced