"A hundred times I wanted to kill myself, but always I loved life more."I've read past this quote, but how can you help to avoid this type of irony. We all have very clear the Candide by Voltaire is a satire but really how well do we know satire. We might all read in class together, and my fellow classmates are laughing but I don't get why, they are laughing because of the book. I might have mentioned it always in previous post but I can't help it to question if everything Voltaire is saying is irony.
In the quote mentioned earlier is clear the use of the irony. Because why would you want to commit suicide if everyday you love life more? It doesn't make sense thats the thing to it. This quote is in the chapter of The Old Woman Story. This quote really got me thinking, I believe that is rational for the people of that world want to kill themselves, but the question is why not most of them do it.
I thought that maybe that was it, religion. Because imagine if now a days to commit suicide is seen bad in society, imagine in those days that religion was their all. Because commiting suicide is not accepted in the Christian doctrine and I don't believe that anyone who has faith in god wants to spend eternity in hell, because thats where you'll go if being religious.
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