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Candide Rhetorical Analysis

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Warped War Logic
War, what is it good for? Edwin Starr asked this very good question in his famous song. War is violent, gruesome, and deadly, so why is it used to solve problems? Innocent people go fight in wars to try and win other people’s battles. When really thought about, the reasons people go to war do not make sense. In Candide by Voltaire and Gulliver’s Travels by Swift, the rationale of war is satirized by the use of warped logic.
What causes war to begin in the first place? One of the more ridiculous reasons was pointed out in Gulliver’s Travels in the statement “Sometimes one prince quarrelleth with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him” (Swift 234). The idea to cause a fight out of fear for a fight is illogical.

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