Candide Exile Essay
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Julie Chandara
Mr.Papanicolopoulos
AP Literature and Composition
16 October, 2014
Title
When one is exiled from his or her home, the absence from their native land may change them for the good, or for the worse
.
While exile is both an “ enriching experience” and an “ essential sadness” indicated by Edward Said, the two contradictory statements seem to fall into place and come together
.
In the novella,
Candide
, Voltaire demonstrates this immaculately through the protagonist, Candide, and properly portrays the alienation and enrichment through his understandings and encounters with various characters
.
While driven away from his home in
Westphalia, Candide gradually grows as a character and is tainted by evils of society, while also experiencing enriching forms of philosophies and events that would eventually change him for the better
.
This experience not only promotes his transition from a flat to round character, but also undoubtedly makes the story come together as a whole
.
At the beginning of the novel, Voltaire alludes to Adam and Eve’s exile from the Garden of Eden through the exile of Candide
.
As Candide peregrinates through horrid wars and sites to return to the garden, he soons reevaluates his situation and decides to make his own judgement
.
At first,
Candide exhibited an extreme aversion to naivety and was highly influenced by his mentor,
Pangloss
. Being taught that in this best of all possible worlds, everything happens out of absolute necessity and for the best, Candide travels instinctively and extremely gullible to everything he
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stumbled across
.
After every plot twist, act of treachery and natural disaster, Pangloss’s philosophy can be seen as absurd and utterly out of touch with reality
.
By the end of the novel,
Candide finally rejects Pangloss’s philosophy and utilizes another one the belief that hard work and simple pleasures cure all
.
He discovers that
Julie Chandara
Mr.Papanicolopoulos
AP Literature and Composition
16 October, 2014
Title
When one is exiled from his or her home, the absence from their native land may change them for the good, or for the worse
.
While exile is both an “ enriching experience” and an “ essential sadness” indicated by Edward Said, the two contradictory statements seem to fall into place and come together
.
In the novella,
Candide
, Voltaire demonstrates this immaculately through the protagonist, Candide, and properly portrays the alienation and enrichment through his understandings and encounters with various characters
.
While driven away from his home in
Westphalia, Candide gradually grows as a character and is tainted by evils of society, while also experiencing enriching forms of philosophies and events that would eventually change him for the better
.
This experience not only promotes his transition from a flat to round character, but also undoubtedly makes the story come together as a whole
.
At the beginning of the novel, Voltaire alludes to Adam and Eve’s exile from the Garden of Eden through the exile of Candide
.
As Candide peregrinates through horrid wars and sites to return to the garden, he soons reevaluates his situation and decides to make his own judgement
.
At first,
Candide exhibited an extreme aversion to naivety and was highly influenced by his mentor,
Pangloss
. Being taught that in this best of all possible worlds, everything happens out of absolute necessity and for the best, Candide travels instinctively and extremely gullible to everything he
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stumbled across
.
After every plot twist, act of treachery and natural disaster, Pangloss’s philosophy can be seen as absurd and utterly out of touch with reality
.
By the end of the novel,
Candide finally rejects Pangloss’s philosophy and utilizes another one the belief that hard work and simple pleasures cure all
.
He discovers that