Voltaire's Candide: The Philosophy Of Optimism

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a short novel that packs a punch and really looks back at America’s past and mistakes. Steinbeck paints a picture of the late 1920s and early 1930s through two men, George and Lennie. George looks after the mentally challenged Lennie and must take action by soon ending Lennie’s life. The characters in the novel all struggle with heartbreaking conflicts but, no one else suffers more than Lennie and George. These conflicts are often supported imagery in the text.

In addition Chesterfield follows up his point in lines 43-45 directly addressing his son by saying “your shame and regret must be greater than anybody because everybody knows the uncommon care which has been taken to your education,” the careful use of language illustrates his point. Intentionally starting this sentence with “your” Chesterfield ensures that his point is to be taken personally. He follows up with “anybody” and “everybody” using these two all inclusive extremes to emphasize that failure is an unacceptable option. Being handed the luxury of high social status and exemplary education sets up the equality elevated expectations and consequently the disastrous alternative of not fulfilling the

What Makes Happiness Happiness? Everyone defines happiness differently, but everyone needs happiness. The book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse talks about how Siddhartha finds happiness through many ways. He leaves home and his friend, Govinda, to find enlightenment. He starves himself, he learns love, he thinks of suicide… Fortunately, he meets a ferryman, who becomes his best friend also his “teacher”, and helps him find the ultimate way to achieve enlightenment.

"Journey around the world in hopes of finding and achieving happiness, and then heading towards many obstacles, exposed tortured during an army training and his separation with his love was very devastating for him but he continued to be optimistic. he expressed always believed in the cause and effect in everything. one can conclude that the author was irrational and that exposing his beliefs that cannot be considered a reality.

He was born well before his time, or so he thinks as he raises the bottle to his lips. “Miniver Cheevy” written by Edwin Arlington Robinson tells the life of a man who blames all of his problems on not being born in the Medieval Ages. The name of this man is also the namesake of the poem: Miniver Cheevy. Through his brilliant use of form, figurative language, and sound devices, Robinson portrays the theme of a wasted life and lonely life is often spent within fantasies in one’s head. Throughout “Miniver Cheevy” Robinson chooses to use a distinct and noticeable form that helps tell the actions and thoughts of Miniver Cheevy.

The short story, Candide, or Optimism, was wrote by Voltaire, who was a renegade author amidst the Enlightenment time period. This author questioned the mainstream ways of life from his childhood through adulthood writing with boldness, wit, and rebellion as his protesting voice (Puchner, 421). Holding such strong opinions landed him in exile on more than one occasion. It was during his first imprisonment that he launched his writing career (Puchner, 421). His first play won him notoriety and wealth, which fueled his desire to speak out using his writings as a sounding board.

We were liars is a story about the ideals we are all supposed to aspire to, simply because of the way our society defines success; as being forceful, reckless, hasty and bold. The dauntless ideal Cadence falls prey for. In my opinion the book is trying to shed light on the insidious backside of our idea of heroism, and the too often gruesome consequences it might bring. That it more frequently than not results in the unnecessary suffering of others. Cady’s cousin Mirren on the other hand, had a very different life motto: ”Always be kinder than you have to”.

He is in these locks because he did not live life to the fullest. He warns Scrooge that three ghost are coming to help Scrooge open his eyes and see what he is missing in life and to cheer up. The ghost show him the past, present, and future and it is usually something that starts happy then turns terrible . The first ghost visited scrooge at 1:00AM and took him back to the past and showed how happy he was in the past and how sour he became further on in life. The second ghost that visited showed him in the present all the poor people that were enjoying themselves even one of his workers Bob Cratchit and his family and tried to make him see sense and joy in Christmas.

Children are born into the world with no set guidelines or morals until they can get a basic understanding of the world around them. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch is a man with incredible amounts of honor and morality. His two kids see a lot of the cruelty that exists in life throughout their childhood, from a racist trial to a truly bitter person. Atticus tries to instill several morals into his children so that they will lead successful lives in the future with a strong understanding of the world. Atticus has his children read to a bitter old lady named Mrs. Dubose, so that they can help her overcome her morphine addiction.

The internal conflict that Tessie Hutchinson only worried about herself and not her family. Tessie states “there's Don and Eva, Mrs. Hutchinson yelled, make them take their chance.” This shows she didn't care what happens to other people. The short story also includes an external conflict; where old man warner brags he can survive the lottery which he did all of’em, He says “seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery, old man warner said as he went through the crowd.” This also shows that he’s capable to survive another one. You can imagine what he must go through the worry every year of not knowing if this is his last year alive. This is internal conflict (Jackson