Cao and Voltaire were wonderful authors in the eighteenth century. They would use the main character of their stories to represent each of their cultures. Cao Xueqin, wrote from the lifestyle of China; while Voltaire, wrote from the lifestyle of Europe. The authors express their protagonists through character development in order to represent their own culture. Bao-yu, is a protagonist who happens to have two different developments. In the beginning of Story of the Stone, Bao-yu is a stone. He’s
across with her work called “A Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination”. This letter shows how she feels women are treated not like a fellow human, but as a subservient being to their husband and other men. While Voltaire
Enlightenment is the work of Voltaire “Candide”, where the author presented feudal society in critical manner. Voltaire, disappointed by his own
Though King Louis XVI contributed significantly to the overthrow of the monarchy, he was a small factor in a much larger and more complex event. The roots of the revolutionary idea reach further back than simply the 18 years that Louis ruled. The revolution was a formulation of blunders from past monarchs, the rise of enlightenment thinking and a series of events that highlighted the inequality of the feudal system. Though Louis XVI was used as a justification of an entire society’s rage against