Candide Candide. Born François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire (1694–1778), by the time of the Lisbon earthquake, was already a well-established author, known for his satirical wit. He had been made a member of the Académie Française in 1746. He was a deist, a strong proponent of religious freedom, and a critic of tyrannical governments. "Candide" became part of his large, diverse body of philosophical, political and artistic works expressing these views. More specifically, it was a model for the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels called the "contes philosophiques". This genre, of which Voltaire was one of the founders, included previous works of his
Fran Bow for her parents' tragedy. On the way home, Fran Bow discovers a strange land named Ithersta, where vegetables and roots live in harmony. After she exits Ithersta she runs into a creature named Itward. Itward is the creature that helps Fran get back to Mr. Midnight. Throughout the game, Fran's reality seems to break down. She can no longer tell the difference between what she sees on the pills or what she sees off them. Fran Bow is faced with the reality that her parents have died and the person responsible might be her or someone very close to her.