Boredom, Poverty, Vice
Voltaire’s Candide questions the best of all possible worlds that contain daily atrocities, iniquities, and disasters.
Read moreVoltaire’s Candide questions the best of all possible worlds that contain daily atrocities, iniquities, and disasters.
Read moreAn overriding theme of Molière’s Tartuffe is not one of religion directly, but of that age-old concern of comme il faut, propriety, and appearance versus reality.
Read moreRather than negating criticism altogether, Whatever is, is right only supports the critic’s endeavor further in Pope’s writing.
Read moreTo Pope, the satirist is one who defends Virtue and attacks Vice whatever the consequences; he is one who supports friends and attacks those who are enemies of the truth.
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