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I enjoyed reading Candide.  I found the paper a little harder though.  Every definition that I could come up with for Enlightenment seemed to go against something in Candide.  Voltaire was having such a good time making fun of the optimism and pessimism.  It is almost hard to see him as an enlightenment thinker. 

Not much to say on this topic, because I bet that the movie will fit into later “isms” better, but… I noticed a similarity between the enlightenment focus on truth, liberty, and happiness and the bohemian ideals of truth, freedom, beauty, and love from the movie Moulin Rouge.