Compare And Contrast Paulician And Candide

Anselm’s argument is based on this known definition of the concept of God alone. Descartes’ argument for the existence of God is based on his foundation of knowledge, logic. Humans have the idea in their minds of infinite perfection. Humans also have the idea of themselves as inferior to this idea as imperfect. For humans to have the idea of infinite perfection, there must be truth in the reason for them having this idea.

They were hired to take Buttercup across the Florin Channel to the neighboring country of Guilder to kill her. This would then provide the Prince with the perfect excuse to start a war with Guilder. The plan was ruined, however, when a mysterious man dressed entirely in black defeated the Sicilian Crowd and saved Buttercup. Soon after this, the mysterious stranger revealed to Buttercup that he was actually Westley, Buttercup’s true love who she thought died three years earlier. Now united with Buttercup, Westley was forced to evade the Prince and his men.

“Desiree’s Baby” is a twisted and heart wrenching story that takes place during a time of great racial inequality. The Devil seems to be very busy throughout the world as he escalates situations and spews lies into the thoughts of men, tearing them from their beloved families. The story “Desiree’s Baby” summons up a very saddening irony that the prejudiced Armand learns that it was his mixed parentage and not that of his wife which produced their mixed-race child whom he detested and rejected. Desiree’s child brings both Desiree and Armand together in love.

Dorian too is disgusted by his father’s actions and soon realizes that he has to work up the courage to tell his father to put a stop to this madness. The fight for freedom plays a major role throughout the

At the end of the story as he is divesting himself of Desiree’s belongings, he comes across a letter from his own deceased mother which reads,” night and day, I than good God for having arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery” (Chopin), which brings him to his epiphany. The fact that he did not know could be because of his parents’ choice to raise him abroad where the stigma of slavery did not exist. Maybe she was light skinned enough that she could pass for a white woman. We may never know how this accomplishment was carried out, but it is evident that Armand now knew, that although his son was bi-racial, it was his lineage, not Desiree’s, at fault.

Is a God unable to suppress the evil or does he have no solution to problem of evil? The thesis posited by Mackie that evil exists and there is no God to stop the evil is still relevant to today. We still have wars, incurable diseases and struggles on this planet.

Do you feel sorry for him or does he get what he deserves? What does it tell you about how upper class southerners treated slaves? The preacher is the least sympathetic character in the entire story. He literally has no redeeming value as a human being, though he does provide value as a plot device.

Kevin and Dana discuss what needs to be done with Rufus and Dana explains the forms of punishments she and other slaves receive: “Sent me to the field, had me beaten, made me spend nearly eight months sleeping on the floor of his mother’s room, sold people … He’s done plenty, but the worst of it was to other people” (245). Butler uses diction and characterization of Rufus to exploit how men are immature when power hungry. He contains a lot of power over many human lives, slaves. He abuses his power when he simply wants.

Similarly to Gertrude, Mrs. French “looks upon her husband as unfaithful, and regards [Clotel] as a rival”(n.p). Clotel’s beauty is now a curse and with her long, wavy, black hair serving as a symbol of “exotic” beauty, her mistress orders her to cut it off. Still “handsome,” with the help of a male slave at her new master’s plantation, she decides to pass as a southern gentleman to rescue her daughter, Mary, that she left behind as a servant in her own father’s home. Her ability to pass as an Italian gentleman serves a device to show how the mulatto was able to disguise him or herself and navigate freely through American society, thus shattering the basis of what race stands. When the Nat Turner revolts takes place, suspicious people are searched and Clotel is detected, not because of skin color, but because her suitcase only contains women’s clothing.

Though, despite this, humanity’s free will is the most important thing to both God and humanity itself. Burgess sees humans as beings

Pangloss once said, "There is no effect without a cause, and that this is the best of all possible worlds". Candide was tempted by the beauty of lady Cunegonde in the book Candide by Voltaire. It caused him to loose his house and access to meals. Nothing but misfortune for poor Candide. Pushed around, stolen from and almost killed, all for the love of his life lady Cunegonde.

Candide is considered one of Voltaire’s influential pieces of work and was full of over the top stock characters and bizarre situations. The satirical work is set up as a long epic following the adventures of the young and fair hero Candide and his quest to find and marry his beloved Cunégonde. Candide meets many different extraordinary people and has several different companions that travel with him throughout Europe as well as the New World Along the way many of these companions and acquaintances are brutally killed and a few turn out to not be as dead as expected. In the end, Candide and company do not end up with an ideal happy ending that was expected. Cunégonde becomes unattractive and the money gathered in El Dorado is used up or stolen,

Optimism in Voltaire’s Candide and Pope’s Essay on Man While both Voltaire and Alexander Pope hold optimistic views on the world, they reach very different types of optimism through very different approaches. Pope’s optimism is grounded in determinism, a system of faith that puts the reigns in the hands of a higher power and states that all things happen in furtherance of some ultimate goal. Voltaire’s optimism, on the other hand, is grounded in his belief in free will and the weight of one’s decisions.

Voltaire’s Candide explores many philosophical ideas in its interesting and lengthy text. While there are many concepts and topics Voltaire addresses within this story, a notable topic that is touched upon would be Candide’s decision to leave the land of El Dorado and return to the outside world, ultimately settling down in a Turkish garden. Voltaire’s decision to have Candide return to society is a commentary on Man’s necessity to cultivate his own destiny. Voltaire brings Candide to the utopia of El Dorado to expose Candide to a place where a person could easily and quietly live out the rest of their life. The initial introduction to the land of El Dorado describes a place where the land “was tended for pleasure as well as profit; everywhere

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s quote, “The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.” can be interpreted in innumerable ways. Voltaire's novella Candide resonates strongest negatively, with the pessimist’s view superseding the optimist’s view. Though a pessimist is someone who always sees the bad factors and worst possible results of any situation, Candide is not a story filled with negative thoughts even in the perfect circumstances; or gloomy with a quitter-esque attitude.