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Voltaire attacked the church, the state, philosophy and the governing class. He spent most of his life dodging punishment for his satirical tongue. Voltaire wrote against religious persecution, criticized the powerful individuals and condemned their institutions. Voltaire uses mockery in his book Candide to express his bitterness towards nobility, philosophy, the church, and inhumane cruelty. Throughout the book we come across a lot of characters. One in which is a baron named Thunder-ten-tronckn. An awful …

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