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I love Voltaire use of satire against the baron and his family. By giving these nobles a title by the name of “Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh” (19) Voltaire is using satire in a simple and funny way to ridicule the belief of aristocracy, that they being nobles are superior even from birth. Take for example Candied mothers attitude, “he was the son of the Baron’s sister by a worthy gentleman of the neighbourhood, whom the young lady would never marry because he could only claim seventy-one quarterings” (19). How pathetic can you get? Voltaire makes a complete mockery of the life of these nobles because surly they were pathetic enough to act in these manner, and surly enough some still do. This is completely dim. The only thing they are completely worthy of: is mockery.