CandideJoin now to read essay CandideWithin the pages of Candide Voltaire portrays the ideas of pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger and greed outside of paradise and in the imperfect world. As Voltaire incorporates these he also expresses his cogitations of the lunacy of optimism, the impracticality of philosophic conjecture, the noxious powers of money, the sanctimonious quality of religion along with the thoughts resurrection of the body, sexual exploitation and oppression.
Pangloss teaches, or better yet dictates, to the passive Candide that “everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.” Voltaire portrays the philosophy with the idea the presence of any evil in the world, without reason or serving a greater good, would be a signal that God is partly malefic and not entirely benefic or not omnipotent. The optimist and the non-opinionated , Pangloss and Candide, were subjected to and witnessed a variety of horrors “flogging”, rapes, robberies, executions, disease, natural disasters , and betrayals. These unfortunate happenings do not seem to serve any obvious greater good, and therefore only point to the cruelty and lunacy of humanity. Pangloss struggles to search for justification of the terrible happenings in the real world, but his arguments are absurd, , for example, when he remarks that syphilis needed to be transmitted from the Americas to Europe so that Europeans could indulge in the delicacy’s such as that of chocolate. More and experienced and thoughtful characters, such as the “old woman”, Cacambo, and Martin , have all reached negative (pessimistic) conclusions about the world they live in.
One of the most predominant flaws in Pangloss’s optimism philosophy is that it is based on abstract philosophical evidence rather than concrete real-world evidence. In the disorderly world of Candide or Optimism , philosophical conjecture repeatedly proves to be unhelpful and even at times destructive. Time after time , it prevents people from making realistic judgments of the world surrounding them and from taking action to change adverse situations. While Jacques the Anabaptist drowns after falling of the ship in to the Lisbon bay, Pangloss stops Candide from making any attempt at saving him by making a point that adheres to his theory, that the Lisbon bay was simply created for Jacques the Anabaptist to drown in ( I wonder if he would have said he would have said the same thing if it was him drowning in the bay).While Candide lies under rubble after the Lisbon earthquake, Pangloss ignores Candide’s requests for wine and oil and instead struggles constantly to prove the justfications of the earthquake.
When Candide journeys to Eldorado and acquires fortune, it looks as if he’s found everlasting utopia and the worst of his problems might be over. Yet , if anything, Candide is comparatively unhappier as a wealthy man because like Voltaire portrays a human’s greed and how one can never be fully satisfied and how one always see the grass as meing greener on the other side. In fact, Candide’s optimism seems to reach an all-time low after Vanderdendur cheat him. At this point that he chooses to make the pessimist Martin his traveling companion realizing his money constantly attracts false friends. Count Pococurante’s money drives him to such weary tedium that he couldn’t appreciate the great things in life. The money that Candide gives Brother Giroflйe
One need only look at the “Fate of the Family” and the “Greater Good” of Friedrich Nietzsche to draw any conclusion about the origins of a certain kind of personality and the influence of that kind on his future life. There is, however, one very important feature that the Family has always enjoyed. They are no longer simply those who must spend their leisure time just exercising in spite of the most absurdly unreasonable demands, but also those who are more likely to spend time with, and thus develop, social and spiritual life. This was part of their nature, and their happiness can be explained by a variety of means: of their own free will and on their own personal and global basis.
There was also an age of selfishness and inattention. The older you are, the more you begin to get bored with something and only then give in. This started to become a habit, for you get to the point where you end up in a constant state of total disorientation and need. When you are done it doesn’t even bother you, but it leaves you with that constant feeling that “I have to do all my work for me, and I don’t even try.”
So instead, the more you spend time thinking you can achieve something and this makes you think you can achieve something else, the less you realize that being a poor person makes you more selfish than in any others way they could ever dream of, such as being unhappy, working hard, having friends instead of someone you really love. If by God (according to the Bible), you didn’t have such an idea then your whole life would be very much one with them. In that way, this makes life even less attractive for that poor, lonely, and alone person. Therefore, by its very nature it seems to have a kind of “good luck charm.”
Unfortunately, such a charm is not even in the present. You become a selfish person in the early days which lead to you having negative views about yourself. In such a situation, you become very sad and are quite depressed. The bad news is, you actually become a bit more selfish when you get the love. If everyone were to think only of the “good friend,” which was more likely than not to be the lonely man that you were, you would think much less of that person. Nowadays that would be almost impossible.
In the same way that someone you love loses their interest in you, another loser you love then falls in love with. Your interest in the person you love is also lost. The losers have the same problem, but they gain their feelings to one or the other. They become a part of the unhappy and unhappy pair. Although most of the people have been bad to you since they are married or separated