Candide By Voltaire: Literary Analysis

(Voltaire, 1761, p.4) This quote is links to the philosopher Leibnitz who embraces the optimism, where Voltaire condemns this kind of ideology, and ebodies it in Pangloss’s character that the excessive believe in optimism is something intolerable in Candide. Voltaire’s critique to the Libenitz’s optimism is very severe and starts his novel with this quotation to ridicule and challenge this idea. ,(Voltaire, 1761, p.4) 2- ‘’Mankind must have corrupted nature just a little, ‘he would say, ‘ for men are not born wolves, yet they have become wolves.’’

In the novel Candide written by Voltaire, there are a lot of motifs mentioned throughout the novel. One of the main motifs is the garden. This motif was mentioned multiple times throughout the book. The first time is when Candide was kicked out of castle because of his relationship with Cunégonde. After being kicked out, Candide ends up in El Dorado in south America which has beautiful landscape but he doesn’t stay there for a long time and leaves to find his love.

In Mice of Men, John Steinbeck shows characterization and slang from back in the day around the Great. He present limitations for the roles of people, and the struggles of new jobs. The setting takes place in Soledad, up the Salina river. Two men named Lennie and George, leave their ranch job in Weed due to conflictions. They find a new ranch to work at with a dream in their hearts of owning their own farm one day.

George is a short, smart man. He is a migrant farm worker who has to take care of his best friend Lennie who is cognitively impaired. While they were about to go to sleep near the brush calmly like a bedtime story, George said “ Someday we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and rabbits”(Steinbeck pg 14). This proves that he and Lennie is going

“What consumes your mind, controls your life.” (Unknown). This quote perfectly describes how Author John Steinbeck foreshadows Lennie’s death in his novel Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck was touched to write this distinctive book after his childhood experiences as a farm worker and his observation of migrant laborers. He noticed the poor workers lived an inadequate life of constant travel from one place to another.

Life in the Lower Class In the novel The Jungle, Upton Sinclair uses various literary devices to portray the naturalism movement in the view of a Lithuanian immigrant living in America. Sinclair uses symbolism to portray the house that Jurgis and Ona desire to live in as the beginning of their American dream, he also uses foreshadow as he mentions the innocent hogs being slaughtered at the factory which foreshadows Jurgis and his families future as these innocent people begin to face hardships leading to their end. The negative diction in which Sinclair uses in this novel portrays a poignant and despicable lifestyle in Chicago. Jurgis and Ona were newly weds who came to America shortly after their marriage in Lithuania. Upon arrival to the states Jurgis and his wife lived in a boarding house for a while as Jurgis went in search of a job.

The Scarlet Ibis In Literature,authors use many different literary techniques to develop the themes of their stories. In James Hurst's short story”The Scarlet Ibis” set in the early nineteen hundreds on a rural farm,the narrator flashes back to his childhood days as he tells of his life with his brother Doodle. As Doodle struggles to overcome his handicap,his brother struggles with his embarrassment at having a brother who has difficulties. Through his use of characters and event, Hurst develops his theme”that pride is a wonderful,terrible thing,a seed that bears two vines,life and death. Through hurst use of events in the story you can seen how his theme,”pride is a wonderful terrible thing” unfolds through the story .

He eventually reunites with several of the characters, and at the old woman’s recommendation, he purchases some farmland. While the previous examples portray instances in which Voltaire displays the harm that boredom can cause, Voltaire uses the text’s conclusion to indicate the benefits of a lack of boredom. After living on the farm for some time, the old woman asks the group to choose the greater evil: the tragedies they endured, or the boredom they experience on the farm [46]. Voltaire answers this question by introducing a Turkish farmer who remarks that there exists “three great evils – idleness, vice, and poverty” [47]. Note that Voltaire affirms that idleness, not the tragedies that occur, equates to evil, and so one can see that Voltaire considers boredom as more detrimental than the tragedies.

Gregor Samsa’s situation plays out very quickly. The story begins with “he found him self changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed.” (Kafka 1204) In a modern world full of politics and where society is all about money, most of the house holds have a breadwinner. Gregor is considered and showed through the novella as the breadwinner for his family.

On their way, they stop at a place to get food. Where the grandmother has the chance to talk to men about the man that had escaped jail and the chat about how it was hard to find good people in the time they were living. This story concludes with the family being shot by the murderer which they found on their way while they changed their route. How does the author use the characters in this story to develop a theme?

This idea is suggested in the beginning of the story when Cacambo leaves Candide. For instance, the narrator says, “Cacambo…was in despair at leaving a good master who had become his intimate friend; but the pleasure of being useful to him overcame the grief of leaving him” (Voltaire, 63). In this instance, practical work lets Cacambo avoid the unwanted feeling of misery. Moreover, by the end of the story, this is idea is completely developed and is mentioned subtly nearby Candide’s farm when a Turk farmer says, “I have only twenty acres…I cultivate them with my children; and work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need” (Voltaire, 107). Also, Candide, Pangloss, and Martin make similar conclusions about their own lives.

He is forever stuck in this struggle of breaking his habitual, evil ways. In the beginning of the story, Mr. Shiftlet comes along the desolate home of the Crater’s. Although he has a handicapped arm, he uses his acquired carpenting skills to work for Mrs. Crater in exchange for food and a place to sleep. He patches the front and back steps, builds a new hog pen, and restores their fence. Even more importantly he works to

They are going to work at a ranch to earn money to buy the little ranch they want. They meet many people, some nice and some mean. One of the first characters they meet is candy. A very nice older man and his old dog. Candy’s dog is very old and suffering, in this book they made a decision to put him down.

Euthanasia literally means good death. However in our society euthanasia is intentionally ending a life in order to relieve suffering or pain. There are two ways to put people to death you either do it with their will or against their will. if you put someone to death against their will we usually call it murder. But if I say “I’m feeling terrible kill me” would you help me to die?.so now we have euthanasia defined and assistant suicide and all these different terms very very confusing to the public because the public generally says “if I am in great pain and I am terminally ill and I am going to die soon why can’t I accelerate or make ease of my death?”.

The story of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck is about two farmers named George and Lennie. Although this story may display many different themes; this story is mostly about hopes and dreams. George and Lennie are two farmers who share a strong friendship. Both of them have a dream of owning their own vegetable farm with a rabbit hutch one day. The story takes place when the great depression was happening and life was difficult at that time, but both George and Lennie found a way to work together and help each other out.