Enlightenment literature

  Describe a few characteristics of Enlightenment literature presented in our course. Illustrate those characteristics with specific detail from Voltaire's Candide. Your answer should be one substantive paragraph. The paragraph must have a clear topic sentence, a summary of your main points, and specific detail with appropriate citations. The characteristics that have been taught in our course on this period are these: 1. This period used satire 2. Literature of this time was also focused on individualism. However, it often focuses on the individual in the context of the larger social group or community. 3. Another focus of the time was that the human condition could be made better if we could just apply reason (power of the mind) and good morals. 4. One of these beliefs of the time was that whatever happens in life is for the best.