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1. What are the three biggest targets of Voltaire's satire in these pages? Discuss, and give evidence by quoting exact passages. On page 89 when Baron says "You will never marry my sister while I am Alive" attacks the stubborness and betrayal of men. After all that Candide did to rescue his sister, he still feels that he is not good enough just because he is not in the noble level. It seems as though Voltaire is giving us a message by attacking men. How they are concieted enough to think that they deserve the best of the best.

Also on page 89 where it says "Candide had no desire to marry Cungeconde; but the outrageous impertinence of Baron determined him to go through with the ceremony" It seems as though Voltaire is attacking the people generally. In this quote it says to me that Candide is using the "love of his life" to get revenge on the Baron. Its telling me that people would do anything to hurt or kill their enemies even their loved ones.

On page 91 Martin says " Just as I predicted, I knew that money you gave them would soon be gone, and would only make them more wretched" It shows that Voltaire believes that no matter how much money you have, the social class you are in will never go up. Because you do not know how to handle being a much higher class then you are, you will waste money and time and be even more miserable.

2. Does Swift, in //Gulliver's Travels,// attack any of the targets you identified in question 1? Find passages from Swift's book as evidence. Then write a paragraph for each one, and discuss the similarities and/or differences.

For the first one when Baron says that Candide will never marry his sister, I think it's similar to the king of Lilliput. As you know that when the Baron first met Candide, they were having disagreements and ended up having a sword fight. After that when they met they started to meet each other as friends. After that they started to disagree again and fight. When Gulliver landed in the Island of Lilliput, he got tied up and was getting tortured by arrows. After that he became friendly with the king and helped him a lot of times. After that the king started to abuse him by treating him bad and telling him what to do without even thanking him. It seems like he used him or something. It's the same time for Candide and Baron. First they were fighting, then it seems that the Baron used Candide to rescue his sister, then after that was done they started to fight again. Candide is not attacking royalty and Gullivers not attacking the men, but it seems that it connects.