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Candide
There are several instances in which Voltaire criticizes religion. For example, in Chapter 14, the character Cacambo, Candide's footman in Paraguay, is described as having been a "singing boy,...
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Candide
All three of these schools of thought are definitely portrayed in Voltaire's classic satire Candide. Voltaire shows these schools in different ways, however. You can see the young Candide as an...
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Candide
Candide, of course, is a philosophical novel. While it can be enjoyed on several different levels--Voltaire's wit has actually translated quite well across the centuries--Voltaire is using the...
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Candide
Voltaire's aim in Candide is to disprove the philosopher Leibniz's optimism. This held that our world is the best of all possible worlds and also suggests that any tragedies in this world in some...
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Candide
In Candide, Voltaire is questioning whether the philosophy of optimism is a viable perspective on the world, given all of the tragedy that occurs every day. Voltaire satirizes this philosophy in...
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Candide
At the end of their travels, Candide and the others settle down on a small farm to a simple life of manual labor. Pangloss suggests one last time that things really have turned out for the best and...
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Candide
The primary target of Voltaire's satire in Candide is the German philosopher Leibniz who claimed that our world is "the best of all possible worlds". Leibniz argued that, in spite of its many...
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Candide
There are scenes of rape and forceful sexual acts in Candide. Voltaire was an insightful philosopher. He understood conditions of unfairness that existed in the world. At the time, women suffered...
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Candide
First, let's explore Pangloss's theory regarding the "best of all possible worlds" by showing yet another example. Candide himself subscribes to this theory when the Dutch Captain's death occurs...
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Candide
1. I would set it in modern times. I'm not saying that period pieces aren't good movies or can't be adapted to accommodate a wider modern audience, but often period pieces don't acquire the...
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Candide
in the middle of his novella Candide, Voltaire portrays the Americas as exploited by the clergy and aristocracy of Spain; however, in Chapter XVIII, when Candide and his valet Cacambo arrive in...
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1984
I think that one parallel between Voltaire's Candide and Orwell's 1984 is the intellectual sojourn of each protagonist. Both are presented with philosophies that undergo questioning over the...
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Candide
Candide by Voltaire is a novel written in response to an Enlightenment philosophy of the day, and by his use of satire, Voltaire clearly believes it is ridiculous. A philosopher named Gottfried...
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Candide
Voltaire's Candide is a quintessential satire: there is hardly a paragraph that does not express ridicule. The main focus of this ridicule is the Optimism of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz based...
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Candide
In his parody of the optimistic philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz, Voltaire savagely ridicules the romantic notions of life as Candide risks his life and goes to ridiculous ends in his...
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Candide
Critics feel that if any character is a model of its author, the Scholar, who plays a very minor role, acts as the voice of Voltaire. In fact, this character is often overlooked when he appears in...
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Candide
Depicting her like the heroine of the picareque novel, a heroine who is the idolized beauty of the hero of that genre, Voltaire employs Cunegonde as a symbol of Candide's idealization and...
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Candide
The message of the story clearly states that philosophical speculation only leads to frustration and sadness in life. The way in which Pangloss and his student, Candide, seek to view everything...
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Candide
This section of the novel comes at the very end, when Candide has finally achieved his long-awaited goal of marrying Cunegonde, and the characters have settled down to a traditional happy ending on...
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Candide
The ending of this story exposes the hilarity of Voltaire's thoughts concerning intense philosophical speculation. After spending an entire novel trying to show that the characters live in the...
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Candide
The "old Turk" refers to the deposed Turkish sultan, Achmet III, who Candide meets in Chapter 26. It is clear that Achmet, and the other five former kings and rulers with whom Candide finds him, is...
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Candide
Candide is a sustained assault on the optimistic philosophy associated with the German philosopher Gottfried von Leibniz. Essentially, Leibniz argued that since God created the world, everything...
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Candide
Candide is a young man whose many experiences and life lessons are presented in the story named after him. At the beginning of the story, Candide is a servant of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh. He loves...
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Candide
Candide is an unfortunate youth who suffers quite a lot. He is the illegitimate son of a Baron, and he gets expelled for being in love with his "uncle's" daughter. Then he gets kidnapped and...
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Candide
The theme of the story is whether or not we should expect the best or the worst. Candide has been told that he should expect the best, but he is not sure this is realistic. His struggle with...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The Misfit recognizes the grandmother's failings quickly. He sees that she relates to the world rather indirectly, engaged in fantasy and looking at things at she thinks they should be instead of...
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Candide
There is a google books edition, not the best but it is free.
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Candide
Voltaire's Candide is an all-out attack on dogmatic beliefs, a frequent target of the philosophes' scorn. Pangloss's commitment to the belief, propagated by Leibniz, that all is for the best in...
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Candide
Candide starts off on his journeys believing what Pangloss taught him: That everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. Through all his painful experiences, as well as what he...
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Candide
Candide depicts evil as an ever-present force in human history and in an individual lifetime. After being kicked off the property of Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronckh, Candide travels far and wide,...
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Candide
Voltaire's Candide is satire: Candide, asserted [a] reviewer, "is an attempt to ridicule the notion that 'all things are for the best...'" With this in mind, the first most colorful and strongly...
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Candide
As a counterargument to the philosophy of optimism--meaning optimal, or best--put forth by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz, a philosphy that God created a perfect world,...
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Candide
During the period in which Voltaire was writing Candide, France was governed by a king who was an absolute monarch. The Roman Catholic Church was the official state church, and under a concept...
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Candide
Because Voltaire’s Candide is a satire, most of the critique is indirect. Rather than having a single character that is a spokesperson, beliefs are often satirized by situational incongruities or...
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Candide
Quite clearly, we need to remember that this brilliant novel is above all a satire of so many different aspects of European society, and therefore it has a profoundly different purpose and aim than...
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Candide
The entire plot of Candide follows Candide as he searches the world over for confirmation of Dr. Pangloss's teaching of ultimate and all-inclusive optimism in every situation. Candide's experiences...
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Candide
Voltaire's Candide is a satiric work that promulgates the philosophy of the Enlightenment by satirizing its opponents. It can be read as a defense of Epicureanism (a classical philosophical system...
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Candide
While Voltaire's Candide parodies the theory of optimism as promulgated by Wilhelm von Leibnitz, it also satirizes the Catholic Church and its religious orders. Here are some examples of his...
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Candide
Chapter XVII is the chapter in which Candide and the others reach the land of Eldorado; there they find precious jewels everywhere. Everything is beautiful. "Here's a better country than...
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Candide
This is a complicated question ... I'll try a simple answer and hope it's adequate. Candide is a response to Gottfried Leibniz's assertion that we live in "the best of all possible worlds."...
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Candide
In Chapter four of Candide, Voltaire gives full rein to his biting satire of the optimism promulgated by the mathematician and philosopher G. W. von Leibniz. After meeting a beggar covered with...
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Candide
In Voltaire's novel, Candide, the three themes that stand out in the old woman's tale for me are: one cannot depend that things will always stay the same: being rich and famous one day does not...
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Candide
In Voltaire's Candide, the old lady, who is the servant to Lady Cunegonde, shares her story of her own trials and tribulations. A high-born young woman herself, her fate seems to have been more...
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Candide
In Voltaire's novel, Candide, three themes stand out in the old woman's tale. The old woman has not always been a servant; in fact, she was once a member of the nobility—the Princess of...
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Candide
Candide and his servant Cacambo endure many hardships until they reache Eldorado where they observe children in a village wearing tattered gold and playing with gold balls and gems as though they...
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Candide
In Chapter XVII of Voltaire's famous satire, Candide and his servant Cacambo, in desperate straits, reach Eldorado where they are amazed at the riches, as well as the cultivation of the country for...
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Candide
In Voltaire's Candide, I do not believe the author's recommendation is to retreat from social commitment. Candide is a parody (a form of satire, making fun of an idea...) of Gottfried Wilhelm von...
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Candide
Of all the characters' suffering in Candide, the suffering of the old woman would win the prize, if there were one. When tales of woe are exchanged, the horrors of her life are beyond imagining,...
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Candide
In Chapter 19 of Voltaire's satirical work, Candide, Candide and his servant Cacambo encounter misfortunes until they reach Eldorado. However, although they are in a paradise, Candide cannot live...
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Candide
Candide is unfailingly optimistic after every disaster that befalls him. He always thinks that "everything is for the best" and that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." He has been...