Candide

In Candide, Voltaire critiques rationalism, skepticism, and romanticism through satire. He mocks rationalism by portraying Pangloss's unwavering optimism as absurd. Skepticism is addressed by...

Candide and Victor Frankenstein are both men who attempt, in the context of their respective periods, to participate in the opposite of what they believe ( Candide being told how to think, while...