Comparative Essay

From the works that we have studied in class, one can not help but notice the role of women in these works. In Voltaire’s Candide, the reader clearly sees that he is trying to evoke sympathy from the reader towards women. Voltaire depicts this image with two main characters, Cunegund and the old woman. Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier, represent women in a different light unlike that of Voltaire. Ford depicts women …

…couple of nights when the man goes through this rage and then calms down. The fact that it happens every several days gives the reader a sympathetic feeling because the woman must endure this behavior more than once. The repetition of this evokes even more sympathetic feelings towards the woman and the reader disregards the fact that man has worked so hard and deserves to do as he wishes because he has earned the money.