Analysis Of The Novel 'Candide' By Voltaire

Candide by Voltaire is a narrative about the travels of a man named Candide as he experience the different cultures and government practices. Voltaire wrote this book to mock the many religions of Europe in the time frame the book was written of 1758. It is said that the book Voltaire had a major guidance on the way people beheld religious practices across the world. Voltaire did not think that the world needed order and that suffering is something all men most go through.

Candide was a student of the author’s philosophies. Candide received philosophy lessons from his master Doctor Pangloss with deep conviction. The thought of even in worst moments, there are good things are still happening was one of Pangloss beliefs. In situations throughout the book in which people had different beliefs from what Voltaire viewed, we was bought back to the teachings of the great philosopher Pangloss. Candide agonized a lot of horror in these hasty consecutively chapters. These horrors of seeing the people around him killed, Candide mind began to wary away from the teachings of Pangloss. Through the multiple near death beatings and battles, the thing that kept Candide motivated was his

He referenced to the great earthquake of Lisbon, as Candide and Pangloss was caught in the earthquake leaving many dead. (16) After Candide and Pangloss became survivors of the earthquake, they witness the auto-da-fe a sacrifice of burning of people to prevent such travesties from happening again. (18) Voltaire stated the disease that was believed to be bought back to Europe from the followers of Christopher Columbus called the Neapolitan disease, this disease killed Pangloss lover. (15) The book discussed the negative critical reception French actors received in the 18th century. (57)Voltaire concentrated on the practices of war how soldiers would act in barbaric ways, savaging towns, raping women, and capturing people as