Satires Everywhere

After being on the class where satires were explained to us I began to see them more clearly than I did before. Candide is a satire on many aspects of life particularly positive attitudes towards life. He attempts to take this away by showing a world where those who believe that all is for the best suffer greatly as an attempt of the world to disprove their blind belief. Above all this book made me think that although not all is for the best this can be changed. If one doesn't have a passive attitude towards situations and continues to work towards a better present things will be better. This Idea of passivity appears here : " The reverend fathers own the whole lot, and the people own nothing. . ." (62) If people chose to they could take over and split the land evenly. This passive attitude is what made the situation in which they were bad. It possibly reflects the attitude Pangloss had over life in which everything was meant to be as it was for the best of reasons.

This Satire reminded me of another more modern satire: Neon Genesis Evangelion. That positive and passive attitude towards life as shown in this book is probably a reflection of what Voltaire saw in his days. This series is also a satire to the genre of giant robots like transformers. (Although, the plot revolves around the character's problems and the robots are a metaphor to facing problems in life) In this scene we see a cliché common to anime that there is a gifted pilot which in the first attempt masters completely the art of controlling his machine. This cliché is shattered by making the giant robot worth millions (enough to make several countries in the world go hungry in order to pay its repairs) fall face on and then get badly damaged by the "angel". It is also Satirical that in this series humans are the bad ones. (spoiler alert!)We are the ones who in our greedy search for power have began our search to become living gods. The "angels" are there to seemingly stop our plan but fail in the end. This is the video that shows the part of the satire(In order to show the entire satire viewing the whole series is necessary).

This is a short explanation of the series: