Candide by Voltaire Essay

1) What is the relationship between Candides adventures and Panglosss teachings?In Candide, we see brave outs fill up with struggles and tragedy. Although Candide witnessed and fell victim to worldly evils of cruelty and suffering, he maintained his plausive views through with(predicate) much of the novel. Candide picked up this idea of optimism through Panglosss teachings. Although he did not see any nigh reasons to disbelieve Panglosss teachings time living in the Barons castle, once in the foreign world, Candide experiences many tragic events that make him, and the reader, question the philosophy of optimism. Candides adventures, kick take out when he is kicked out of the Barons castle, clearly represented an im blameless world, full of atrocities that contradicted Panglosss teachings.The events that break apart Panglosss teachings begin al about immediately when Candide is throw in the streets to live on his own. He runs into recruiting officers of the King of Bulgars. T hey bewilder him crispen to the health of their king, but then beat Candide severely and practice manacles on his legs. Luckily though, the king comes by and tells them to spare Candide since he is innocent. scant(p)ly after that, Candide witnesses an awful, bloody battle between two armies. This appalling spectacle heads us how hateful and violent people are in this world. Later, he rules a beggar who turns out to be Pangloss. Pangloss shares some of the horrible things he had been put through and that Candides one and only sleep together had been raped and her whole family had been murdered when the Barons castle had been taken over.Once with Pangloss, he has many new adventures. While out at sea with Pangloss and Jacques, a violent storm occurred and destroyed their ship. Many innocent passengers are killed including Jacques, who died salve a sailor. The innocent passengers deaths dis climb up Pangloss theory since it appeared the disobedient that came out of the wre ck led to nothing good for them instead, only brought them to their deaths. When the sailor, Pangloss, and Candide get into Lisbon, an earthquake destroys most of the city.A tidal wave also crushes ships in the port. In an labor to prevent another earthquake, wise custody take ridiculous actions against the slightest wrongdoing. Candide and Pangloss wipeout up getting arrested. Pangloss is hanged and Candide is beaten large(p)ly. The ridiculous actions taken place prove to be futile when another earthquake erupts the next day. All of the bad that came from the first earthquake provided no good. Pangloss had been hung for no reason and Jacques, a good man, had died from the storm out at sea. The reader is left wondering how these horrible events could result in a greater good.Candide finds that God might have spared one place on earth, El Dorado. He finds this seemingly perfect city, yet does not want to stay because is still in bask with Cunegonde. The king gives him and Ca cambo a few sheep and some gold. This portion of the story brings a little light, yet the whole world cannot be like El Dorado, and people who do live in perfect worlds cannot even measure it because they have nothing to compare the high points against. Since disembodied spirit is always perfect, they live in lethargic boredom and cannot truly appreciate how well off they truly are. We also see times of happiness and good mint that restore Candides faith in optimism throughout the book. Such periods take when we find Pangloss survived, and the points in the book when Candide and Cunegonde get to be together, even for short amounts of time.Towards the end of the story, Candide begins to question Pangloss philosophy more and more. Although we find events that support optimism, we find more counterexamples. Although Pangloss and the Barons son are found alive, they tell Candide their escapes from death, and the tortures they had been put through afterwards. Soon after they free Pan gloss and the Barons son from slavery, the men go and find Cunegonde, the woman Candide had been searching to live with and love for his correct life. When they do find her, she is extremely ugly and Candide no longer wants to unite her. Although he is no longer attracted to her, he is a man of his articulate and feels he must do his duty to take care of her and love her. Now, he is stuck with a woman he no longer lusts over. Candide has at long last found what he had been sacrificing for all of his life to find, yet is not quenched with what he has acquired for his hard work.Throughout the entire story of Candide, we are bombarded with fearsome events that happened to an individual to disprove Panglosss teachings. Candides adventures encountered such atrocities as murder, rape, slavery, and prostitution. The bad events that occur in Candide, help show that the world is not perfect, and that not everything happens for the greater good in the end. Candides adventures, great in number, show us how bad others lives turned out as well as their friends and families lives were hurt as well, such as the old woman. In the end, Candide last realizes that optimism is not a flawless philosophy, and that the idea of working hard and enjoying life is better than waiting around for the good you think will happen. Candides adventures helped to contradict optimism and ultimately changed Candides beliefs from optimism to a realization of reality. Candide begins to live a simple life, working hard to avoid boredom, vice, and poverty.