A Change in Perspective with Candide and the Turk
Candide: Turk, how are you this good day? The weather is nice, wouldn’t you say?
Turk:Yes it is fine and I am well, working the day hard, making the best of what I have in this glorious estate of mine. How are you?
Candide: Well I am simply spectacular, though, there is one thing I cannot understand
Turk: Yes?
Candide: How can you show so much satisfaction for what little God has given you? You seem so happy but you have none of the greater things in life, such as jewels, expensive coats, hair pieces, and nice buttons, nor a fine house to place your marvelous materials.
Turk: You are right, sir, however it is not what God has given me that pleasures me, but how I work those gifts to the best …show more content…
Candide: Well, here I was having a good day, but I have none of those things.
Turk: How is it that so, you have no family, no land, no work?
Candide;: Well, my true family is gone, I was born from an unmarried couple and I am seen as an illegitimate bastard. Therefore, I have no rightful land, there was a time when I was a resident on a Baron’s land; however, but I was rejected when I expressed my love for the Baron’s daughter Cunegonde. As for work, that is simply beneath me.
Turk: Your arrogance has blinded you from the beauty of the world. Work has freed me from weariness, vice, and want. All three of these things you have, but working the earth is beneath you?
Candide: Well, quite literally, yes it is beneath me, but on a serious note how could happiness come from such earthly entities. What about the doings of God? Should he not receive credit for your work? He has given you life and a plan in order to succeed.
Turk: Yes, he has given me the gift of life, and I am grateful, but to say he has one definite plan for me and every doing in the world occurs in order to achieve that plan is foolish. I
Candide: Turk, how are you this good day? The weather is nice, wouldn’t you say?
Turk:Yes it is fine and I am well, working the day hard, making the best of what I have in this glorious estate of mine. How are you?
Candide: Well I am simply spectacular, though, there is one thing I cannot understand
Turk: Yes?
Candide: How can you show so much satisfaction for what little God has given you? You seem so happy but you have none of the greater things in life, such as jewels, expensive coats, hair pieces, and nice buttons, nor a fine house to place your marvelous materials.
Turk: You are right, sir, however it is not what God has given me that pleasures me, but how I work those gifts to the best …show more content…
Candide: Well, here I was having a good day, but I have none of those things.
Turk: How is it that so, you have no family, no land, no work?
Candide;: Well, my true family is gone, I was born from an unmarried couple and I am seen as an illegitimate bastard. Therefore, I have no rightful land, there was a time when I was a resident on a Baron’s land; however, but I was rejected when I expressed my love for the Baron’s daughter Cunegonde. As for work, that is simply beneath me.
Turk: Your arrogance has blinded you from the beauty of the world. Work has freed me from weariness, vice, and want. All three of these things you have, but working the earth is beneath you?
Candide: Well, quite literally, yes it is beneath me, but on a serious note how could happiness come from such earthly entities. What about the doings of God? Should he not receive credit for your work? He has given you life and a plan in order to succeed.
Turk: Yes, he has given me the gift of life, and I am grateful, but to say he has one definite plan for me and every doing in the world occurs in order to achieve that plan is foolish. I