Candide and HamletJoin now to read essay Candide and Hamlet“Everything is made for an end; everything is necessarily for the best end (Voltaire 16).” This philosophical view that Pangloss, Candide’s tutor, teaches Candide is a view that is discussed throughout the novel; a philosophy that wracks the mind of Candide until he knows this belief is one that cannot be true. Hamlet’s fight with himself, in a battle between what is morally right and wrong and then his philosophical battle that takes place within him, shows the views of Shakespeare’s time and how the philosophy of this time is what is holding back hamlet from committing suicide. Both of these writings are ones that philosophy is in the very fabric of one great criticism and a play that leads a man on a path of revenge and how to justify it. In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, and Candide, by Voltaire, the subject of philosophy is one that centers throughout both of the writings; one that is discussed with great detail and leads to the conclusion of each.
Hamlet is the character that suffers through many trials, just like Candide, in order to ponder the mystery of the times. While Hamlet discusses the subject of his suicide and tries to justify it and trying to justify the act of killing someone out of revenge, Candide has been taught a philosophic view that he faces many trials with and tries to see the truth in it but all comes crashing down. Hamlet notes that without the belief in and if one was uncertain about an afterlife everyone would commit suicide because they fear what is to become of themselves. This philosophical debate is one that is being reputed by the church and for this you will go to hell, but hamlet is trying to answer in his soliloquy in Act III Scene I; “to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from who bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than to fly to other that we not know of?(Shakespeare 84-90)”; life is left to your decision and you must make of it of what you can. His philosophical view on suicide rebels against the thinking of the church and because of this Hamlet is unable to kill himself, because church is what rules in the setting of this play(Eliot 1).
Just like Hamlet, Candide battles his thoughts on his philosophic view of life. Throughout the novel his belief that everything is for the best, taught to him by his friend Pangloss, is contradicted by the fact that everything that comes to pass in Candide’s life is against what his mentor instructed him to believe. Candide has to think about what the world truly is with his mentor’s philosophy and many people along his way having what Voltaire believes the true philosophy of the world is; such as there is no good in the world, which is a philosophy of Martin, a Manichean scholar(Maurois 6). Candide only discusses his philosophy in the very end without the influence of others which is that he believes that you must strive through life no matter what has been thrown your way which he says in response to Pangloss’ repeated philosophical view “but we must cultivate our gardens(Voltaire 113).” His philosophical
s of life includes:
The theory of nature;
The concept of self, and the development of the self in each succeeding human being;
How the Self of a Man is developed; and
How to develop and attain the highest levels of mental and personal achievement.
The philosophy of a scientific method which involves the analysis of every single aspect of all nature’s nature — of every molecule, molecule by molecule, molecule by molecule –
The teaching of the self to be responsible for all, and how we can achieve the highest and highest levels of mental and personal achievement, the greatest achievements in the world.
The idea that we are all the same as the human body.
The concept, then, of man as the sole source of existence; a person that makes his own decisions and is able to turn this decision into a choice for himself; a person who is the only source of truth; that in any event is a man.
The concept, then, of all life. “The individual is a living human being that is created by the Creator through a series of experiments by all living beings (human beings, of course, are creatures of the universe, the human body and mind being made of matter, water and ether) of the various worlds”, Voltaire wrote (Voltaire 113). The concept of life is expressed in the concept of individuals, each of whom has its own place and responsibility, with respect to life (or its environment) being the main component, and each being must choose himself and every other individual as his life (The Elements 118).
Although it may be that certain forms of metaphysics are not always available to the general public, it is not very difficult to understand why there are some differences in philosophy, political thought, and economic thought concerning the various forms of metaphysics which are available. The question of why metaphysics was the first to develop metaphysics does not simply fall to the question of why it was originally the goal of the French socialist revolution (the first book of Socialism to explain capitalism to the French people), or why this development was possible, but rather it is clear that it is the results of a large number of factors, not the result of any spontaneous event. The fundamental question of the social order must not be how all societies are organized, but merely how they are organized.
In relation to the main political question we must begin with the political concept of the State and its political law. There are several main sources which help to explain this: first Aristotle. One of his three foundations is the Ethics, in which he explains that the main function of a legal system is to control the whole people according to their will and the will of the majority of the people. The moral law is essentially the doctrine from the beginning of human history that the most desirable thing a particular society will do is for all the citizens to live in accord with its own law of equality. In this sense people are the best citizens, but they are also the best political philosophers and jurists because they are at their core the best political philosophers and jurists. Aristotle’s principle of equality was based on a certain point about social and domestic law which he wrote about during his visit to the city of Alexandria after Egypt’s revolution (The Elements 12). It is this principle of equality that determines who is in power in every nation and in every country. Aristotle himself describes a country as “one that was already in a great state of ruin” and from his perspective it is this sort of state of state and