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Candide was a crazy story. Frankly it was over done. He seemed to repeat himself. Almost as when we talked about when someone tells a story, they tell it so much that it begins to get twisted. Each story seemed to have some things in common but a different twist.
The Barrelmaker Brimful of Love has the same sort of love story and what is my point here is that along with Candide and Gulliver, Barrelmaker bring back ties to the Enlightenment. Our group came up with ties such as religion, role of women, and class. But unlike Candide, these short stories do not veer off into the jungle.
Saikaku puts women in the same cookie cutter mold as Gulliver did. “Ala, however, most women are fickle creatures. Captivated by some delicious love story …caught up in giddy corruption….[T]here is no greater folly than this….[A]bandon all prudence (Saikaku 600)” Here he is describing the cutter as he sees women. Gulliver did things along the same lines, putter women in a cutter of sexual vises and dirty lives.
Religion is kind of the same thing in Gulliver’s view. The way he describes it to the Horses, he makes it sound like it more a have-to thing instead of a choice. Saikaku sees almost like a salvation, especially when his story says, “’Oh’ the old woman replied, ‘God watches over everything….what could possibly happen.’” This shows that the Barrelmaker does not see religion as a fluke but as a settle higher power.