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Candide By Voltaire

            
            
             The novel Candide, by Voltaire is a novel about a man by the name of Candide and his struggles with realizing the harsh truths of life. Candide is the son of the Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh's sister. With Candide's family lived Panglos, a man that Candide often looked to for insight and understanding. One of Panglos many great beleifs is that all is for the best and that good can be found in everything. Candide fell in love with a girl by the name of Lady Cunegonde who is described as having extravagant beauty. Early into the novel Candide is driven out of his home and left was left out in the cold where he almost died. This is where the story really begins to pick up. Panglos and Candide travel all over the world in search of Lady Cunegonde and happiness. They go through many obstacles such as thinking Panglos was dead for a large part of the novel, Candide loses contact with his beloved Cunegonde and almost kills her brother, Candide travels to El Dorado where he finds a large group of content people who give him lots of money and jewels that are of no value to the town. The story comes to an end when Candide, Panglos, Lady Cunegonde and the old woman have all gone through horrible misfortunes but once again end up together. Candide realizes that Panglos was correct in his assumption that good can come of everything. Candide realizes also that happiness is achieved through hard work and that we must not complain but simply "go and work in the garden."(p144).
             In my opinion. One of the major weaknesses of this novel was the fact that it bounced all over the place in such a short time. It was difficult for me to grasp at first but I eventually got used to the style of writing. The book was strong in it's delivery of the message that all people experience tragedy and man was not born to an easy life. I also enjoyed very much how the novel was told in a simple fashion. The novel was interesting and at many times I was eager to find out what happened next.


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1. Book Review - Candide by Voltaire

Voltaire is a very well known writer and philosopher from 18th Century France. In the year of 1759, Voltaire wrote one of his most famous satires, Candide. ... Voltaire wrote Candide, during a time of much poverty and turmoil in France. Voltaire was very significant to the Age of Enlightenment of the 18th Century, and so he wrote Candide with very much accuracy to the time period, in order to reflect his support for certain Enlightenment ideas. ... Another way Voltaire benefits from historically accuracy is that the people who read Voltaire's work could further relate to the events. ...

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2. Ranges of Satire in Candide

Voltaire satirizes many points in Candide such as philosophy, war, and religion. ... Candide illustrates the means in which Voltaire could voice his dissatisfaction. ... (Voltaire 1589)" The reader already knows that Voltaire completely despises optimism, and is now revealed that Candide is slowly becoming the archetype of Voltaire. ... Voltaire also uses satire when he references religion in Candide. ... The religion of Candide, and Voltaire, is Deism. ...

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3. Critical Analysis of Candide

Chapter 15 of Voltaire's 'Candide' can be taken as a perfect example of the author's skill as an 18th Century Enlightenment writer. ... Voltaire is an author who handles character dialogue expertly. Through the Jesuit baron's reaction to Candide's expressed desire of marriage to his sister, Voltaire affords us insight into his critical view of humanity during the 18th Century. ... The baron is used as a foil to Candide, and it is him that forces Candide into yet another violent incident. ... Voltaire depicts his characters, Calambo and Candide, fleeing off gall...

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4. Voltaire on Gender

In Candide Voltaire discusses the exploitation of the female race in the eighteenth century through the women in the novel. ... She is described as "extremely beautiful " (Voltaire. 5) and is repeatedly referred to as "the fair Cunegonde. " (39). ... However, Voltaire does not blame her foolish naiveté on her femininity. ... Voltaire describes her as curious: she is "filled with the desire to be learned. " (5) Upon witnessing a sexual encounter between Paquette and Pangloss, she immediately seeks out Candide to replicate these "experiments. " (5) This passage shows her sexual desire; Cu...

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5. Imprortant Quotes in Voltaire's Candide

The satirical novel "Candide," was written by the French philosopher, Voltaire, during the Enlightenment period, an intellectual movement that occurred in eighteenth century Europe. ... In addition, Candide's statement "but let us cultivate our garden,"" illustrates that he has moved from promoting the philosophy of optimism to promoting the philosophy of meliorism, the same philosophy promoted by Voltaire. ... As a promoter of meliorism, which is seemingly pessimistic and the opposite of optimism, Voltaire found optimism to be ridiculous; he used Candide as a way to ridicule it. In the n...

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6. Candide

In Candide, Voltaire shows his hated for two anti-Enlightenment views: war and religion. ... After the war between the King of Avar and Bulgar Voltaire gives a horrific description of what Candide sees in the villages he walks through. ... It shows Voltaire's disgust with war. The death of Cunegonde, Candide's true love, is the most personal display of Voltaire's disliking of war/military. Voltaire's dislike of religion in Candide follows the enlightenment view, and is best shown in the book during Candide's stay at Eldorado. ...

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7. Candide

Candide is an outlandishly humorous, far-fetched tale by Voltaire satirizing the optimism espoused by the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. ... Candide is Voltaire's answer to what he saw as an absurd belief proposed by the Optimists - an easy way to rationalize evil and suffering. ... In Candide, Voltaire uses Pangloss and his ramblings to represent an often humorous characterization of the "typical" optimist. ... Voltaire concludes Candide by having Candide discover the Turk's truth to life - " the work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice and poverty." (584) Cand...

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8. Voltaire and Candide

Voltaire, a French philosopher who produced an age of enlightenment for his era of the mid 1700's, His piece titled Candide, brought together full coincidences and disasters. ... Voltaire's thought on war reflect his liberal thought on thinkers, like philosophers who preceded him; Voltaire contributions to the enlightenment age does not depend on his originality or lack of it. ... The notebook of Voltaire with his indications of war with ideas in 1755, in France Voltaire was known as the greatest living dramatist. In his notebook, Voltaire was viewed as artistic with his writings; "L...

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