Senza Coglioni!

After reading chapters 8-11 I realized that Voltaire's writing reflects the bitterness and intentions of his satire. His language is basic, cruel and vague. His writing seems shallow and savage. The way he describes the events are cruel and with no feeling. But those words that narrate the story stick into our heads showing the immorality of men and how savage we get to be.

In this point of the novel we see the segregation, the superiority and the necessity of men to see women as a mean of lust and reproduction. That was the perception of women in that time, and the language used reflects the way they were treated. For Voltaire to write it it must have been that he disapproved this type of behavior or was questioning societies savageness. The Italian words prove it, "O che sciagura d'essere senza coglioni!"(53). What is said here is how unfortunate was the women on not having balls, meaning the bravery that men have. This is a very sexist comment, specially because it's saying that just because you have "coglioni" you can survive, you could be useful. But because she didn't have well it's a shame and it is gone to waste,  women are just useful for reproduction.

I also mean by cruel when Voltaire writes, "In the end I saw my mother and all our Italian ladies torn limb from limb, slashed and massacred by the monsters that fought for them"(52). That completely repelled me, is a women such and object to tear her apart? The animal instinct in men is still present, our actions don't reflect the reason we have. 

Voltaire in these chapters shows the lust, vengeance, jealousy and all men's sins that have made the world we have today. And how we think we can escape from it. Candide said,"why, even the sea round this new world is better than our Europe seas. It is undoubtedly the new world is the best world of all possible universes"(48). The new world was a mean of escape of thinking everything will be different, but we have are the ones that have to change not the world.

The sins expressed through Voltaire's language through the parody have not been yet avoided, can it be possible to not be described in that way?

Gli coglioni non fanno le persone...