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Enlightenment Essay Test Between the seventeenth and eighteenth century there was a revolutionary intellectual movement-taking place, known as the Age of Enlightenment. During this time moral human reason became the primary motivator. This was a significant change from the older dominant reverence for church and king. This became a highly controversial topic; many enlightened thinkers began to express themselves through their literature. One writer, Voltaire, wrote on the subject of free will pertaining to human writes through a satire called Candide, and another, Rousseau wrote a “social contract”. Throughout Candide Voltaire makes fun of the government in order to express his views on free will in a satirical manner. In chapter twenty-five Candide and Martin go and visit Lord Pococurante, the senator. While they are there, they mention how he makes two pretty girls lie with him on occasion because he is sick of the pettiness found in the major