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    an Ideal Voltaire presents the character of the protagonist called "Candide: or‚ all for the Best" and "Candide: or‚ The Optimist." learns the principles of optimism from his teacher‚ Dr. Pngloss‚ who lives constantly in fools optimism‚ based on abstract philosophical argument rather than intangible evidence or experiment. However‚ In the chaotic world of the novel. Pangloss and his student Candide maintain that “everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds” which

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    Voltaire’s Satire‚ Candide Voltaire’s satirical work‚ Candide‚ has many aspects. He attacks the conflicting philosophy of the Enlightenment‚ which was the aristocracy. He also states how unbelievable romantic novels. But‚ Candide is a satire on organized religion. It’s not that Voltaire did not believe in God‚ it’s that he disapproved of organized religion. He believed that people should be able to worship God how they saw fit‚ not by how organized religion instructed them to. The first place

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    Voltaire introduced multiple satirical situations throughout his novel Candide. Which all connected to the era of Enlightenment. The philosophers during this time were involved greatly in bringing light to how power could influence individuals to act differently. Candide captures how holding a positive mindset through all the bad is not always beneficial. The novel talks about the flaws within society and society’s way of thinking through ironic situations throughout the chapters. Although there

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    Use Of Satire In Candide

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    As depicted in his novel Candide‚ a French satire written in the eighteenth-century‚ Voltaire stood as an indisputably witty writer. Throughout Candide‚ Voltaire targeted philosophical optimism‚ war‚ and religion: what he considered to be the ills of the world. His primary purpose in writing Candide was to oppose the philosophical theory of optimism. This anger towards optimism primarily arose as a consequence of the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon. He felt a deep compassion for the thousands of victims

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    A confrontation that Candide has is with a slave outside the town of Surinam after he has left El Dorado. While talking to the man he learns that “when we work at the sugar-canes‚ and the mill snatches hold of a finger‚ they cut off the hand; and when we attempt to run away‚ they cut off the leg; both cases have happened to me. This is the price at which you eat sugar in Europe.” After learning of this “abomination” he renounces his optimism that he has held onto through other horrible situations

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    democracy rose in Europe. This idea makes appear a literary and artistic movement known as Romanticism that refers to the philosophy prevalent during the first third of the 19th century. This movement rejects the logic and reason inherent to the Enlightenment. The Romantics encouraged spontaneous and emotional responses to explore and describe the immeasurable aspects of the nature and people’s relationship to it. They valued imagination over reason‚ emotion over logic and heart than head. In this

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    The ending of Candide brings forth a serious debate amongst the novel’s readers of whether the ending is optimistic or pessimistic. There is no definitive answer because it is relative to the individual view on what situational opportunities are available to Candide and his companions on their farm in Turkey. By contrasting Voltaire’s work with itself using the El Dorado paradox from earlier in the novel‚ an important understanding of what a utopian society could look like and how Candide’s farm

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    Alima Camara Prof Kevin Hayes ENG 215 14 May 2013 THE FALLACIES OF PANGLOSS’ THEORY OF OPTIMS Candide is a novella published in 1759 by Voltaire‚ a French philosopher of the Age of the enlightenment. That period was characterized by abuses of power by the church and wars in Europe. Voltaire once agreed to the theory of Leibniz‚ a German philosopher that stats: “All is for the best.” In other word “it is the best of all possible worlds

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    religious hypocrites: "Nothing that I more cherish and admire than honest zeal and true religious fire. So there is nothing that I find more base than specious piety’s dishonest face." In Candide‚ Voltaire makes use of several characters to voice his opinion mocking philosophical optimism. In the story Candide is asking a gentleman about whether everything is for the best in the physical world as well as the moral universe. The man replies: "I believe nothing of the sort. I find that everything goes

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    Candide Tartuffe Essay

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    Authors often incorporate their political and philosophical views in their works. ​ Tartuffe​ ‚  a play by Molière‚ and ​ Candide​ ‚ a novella by Voltaire‚ deal with religion in society. ​ Tartuffe ​ is a  satire about the French upper class’ attitude toward religion. Molière finds fault with extreme  zealots and hypocrisy in religious people‚ and favors moderate beliefs. Voltaire’s ​ Candide​  mocks  Western society by criticizing their religious figures. Voltaire finds scientific reasoning and free  th

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