After the shipwreck with Candide and Pangloss, they wash up to a town in ruins from the earthquake scavenging for food to survive. This earthquake followed by the tsunamis killed 60,000 people and destroyed around a couple thousand buildings. Many events influenced Voltaire to write Candide one major event was the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 this occurred in the kingdom of Portugal. Things needed to change for the greater good and everything was not alright. He believed social progress could be achieved through reason and that no authority-religious or political or otherwise-should be immune to challenge by reason.”1 Voltaire most likely wrote Candide to show the world or naive people the horrors peasants would go through or corruption there is in the world. “Voltaire believed above all in the efficacy of reason.
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