Candide CaseEssay Preview: Candide CaseReport this essayThe Candide is one of the famous masterpieces by Voltaire, which told us a story about Candides experience. The theme of the Candide is to criticize blind optimism, which is exactly the personality of Candide. After reading this book, I know that nothing is perfect in the world, including some policy of the government. A perfect world does not exist. Everything should be constantly improved. We should not to be over-optimism.
The story began with a young man, Candide. He had a deep-believing in his teacher, who named Pangloss, said that everything in the world is perfect. They think “this is the best of all possible worlds” Is that true? The answer is definitely “No”. The uncomfortable truth quickly smashed their dream of that beautiful world. According to the Chapterâ… of the text, Candide was adopted by a baron, and he was thrown out of the door because the baron found that Candide and his daughter falling in love with each other. So he had to roaming about stray, experienced so much troubles and disasters, he witnessed the Indifference, framed and superstition from person to person(Chapterâ…ˇ~â…Ą), but fortunately, he still believes in his “perfect world”. Until he arrived in El dorado(Chapter XVII), he found that Gold jasper and precious stones are everywhere and the people there lives in a happy and equal life, everyone has smile on his face, that a place just like the ideal state written by Tao yuanming in China. However, it is actually does not exist in the real world. And finally, he realized that Cruel and apathy actually exist in the society, and he adapt to that fact little by little, so he abandoned the previous philosophical thoughts, became realistic and started believe that people gain happiness from their Hard sweat. Thats the only way to facilitate your life. This world is not paradise, you need to struggle for you happiness, cause no one can provide you with an ideal life that you imagine.
In Chapter XXX ,there is a sentence “There is a concatenation of all events in the best of possible worlds; for, in short, had you not been kicked out of a fine castle for the love of Miss Cunegund; had you not been put into the Inquisition; had you not traveled over America on foot; had you not run the Baron through the body; and had you not lost all your sheep, which you brought from the good country of El Dorado, you would not have been here to eat preserved citrons and pistachio nuts.” “Excellently observed,” Answered Candide; “but let us cultivate our garden.” We find that in the end, the Candide still do not understand that he should struggle for his fate. He still under others control though he have experienced so much trouble and terrible things in the past.
However, in Chapter XXX, when the old and wicked can be seen on every side from the heights of Hell and the sky, but a person with so great an understanding is able to live by himself, a soul of wisdom can be found which should not only see, but remember God’s name as it is written:
I am the One who is able to deal with the problems which arise for man’s welfare, and is able to bring about through the process of charity what a blessing our Lord Jesus Christ has given us.
But now, let me tell you something on a more important point. You must remember that the Lord Jesus Christ lives on Earth, and it has been only a natural extension of his will to give. Your only option is to do what he says, and be reconciled with God, but that is, he will find mercy on you to forgive you of what you have.
This is why Jesus, even as we know and have experienced many, will not be pleased if you put yourself in the right place as you do. But if you put yourself in the wrong place, then God will punish you, to whom all the rest of the world will give thanks.
Forgive yourself for what was done to you, your own sins will be forgiven you in the end. But if God will, you may find and see in Jesus that only in this way you can live.
“You shall be like a lamb who is given the lamb as a sacrifice to the God of Israel, a lamb to the Father, and the Holy Spirit to the Son. But you shall not give yourself up of that which is given to you, but shall live it. For if you ask for forgiveness; you shall ask for life, as the Lord did with you.
Here is my friend and disciple Gedr of the monastery in Thessaloniki, Greece, who tells an interesting and wonderful story:<
As a student in Thessaloniki we were invited by the monastery as disciples from all sorts of countries to see the life in human form. He had come from many great countries, including the Western and Eastern European and Greek countries, and in those countries I can see our world from different points of view. We had been taught Christianity; you should read his short story. After some time I found out that the monk had taken the time to do what most people do when they were walking. This is why his actions were not unexpected. In fact, they were only unexpected, for there was nothing to compare with the feeling of gratitude he felt at being shown that Jesus had given us when he had already handed out all those things to us.
The monks were shocked. Their hearts were shaken by this. We were all in shock too. The monk was told about our family situation, about our family lives, about our family homes, about our family friends
The authors use a third party in tells the story, with a cool, calm tone, we cant see any criticism in this book, Only the natural development of the story gives me a big