Candide
In the book Candide the author Voltaire presents his ideas on life and the world through a satirical story. The main character Candide, is used to show his views through the different experiences and events that happen to Candide throughout the book. In his satire Voltaire seems to emphasize through Candide's adventures that in the world there is no such thing as reason and order to govern it. Candide showed how people become hypocritical and turn their backs on others when something of importance to them is involved. He is betrayed many times during his adventures by people he trusts, this betrayal only gets him into more problems than he had before. One of the themes of the book is shown right away, when he is caught by Baron Thunder-ten tronckh kissing his daughter Lady Cunegonde and is literally kicked out of the house by the Baron (21) and how he puts his trust in a ship captain with his riches so that he may go home to Europe (88-89). Both of these betrayals only create more problems for Candide when he is kicked out of the house and all his troubles to get through life begin when he goes to the dock and the captain of the ship had sailed away with all his riches. This shows tha
Candide in the end appears to have loss optimism in a world that is surrounded by hopelessness and suffering. On one of Candide's adventures they meet an officer of the Inquisition (who seems to be a priest) with whom he begins to discuss about free will and disagrees that the fall of man ever occurred. War reveals itself as Candide witnesses the casualties of war. In this example, Voltaire shows the greediness of man and the lack of reason or order in the world. Another example is when Candide is captured by Oreillions who are at war with the Jesuits he is almost eaten by them until he proved that he was not a Jesuit by reporting that he had killed a Jesuit commander (69). But, insignificant reasons give armies or people the justification to go to war and to fight brutally and kill each other. By these examples Voltaire explains and criticizes how a real tragedy religion is in Candide/Voltaire's world. But, as we see in Candide that is not so and human brutality and injustice are a real part of the world and made it totally imperfect. Reason and order should keep every aspect of a person in check so that there are no troubles in the world or in life. In the battle between the Bulgars and Abares Candide hides away to watch the battle and during this time he notices the many dead bodies of soldiers and innocent people because of war (25). God's reason and order are foiled by human brutality and corruption. Voltaire also criticizes the brutality of war. Voltaire's ideas, represented in Candide's adventures, seem to show that because of man's own brutality and his own nature the world will never be perfect. Candide's adventures are full of inexplicable things that are complicated by human errors and unkindness.
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