Book Review – Candide By: Voltaire
             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 Cunègonde 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 that people in Voltaire's view are not perfect and are part of a deceiving and immoral world and far from reason and order. Reason and order should keep every aspect of a person in check so that there are no troubles in the world or in life. 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.
             Voltaire also criticizes the brutality of war. Throughout Candide's adventures we know about war. Its senseless and hopeless brutality and the destruction and human waste that surrounds it. War reveals itself as Candide witnesses the casualties of war. In the battle between the Bulgars and Abares Candide hid...