Candide Title Analysis

One of the most interesting aspects of Candide, or Optimism, is how each title is named. With almost every chapter there is a sentience title. Titles of chapters are meant to give you an idea or a longing to understand what happens next, and most are a few words. These chapter titles give you a short summery of what you are about to read but they are done in a sentience. I also find it interesting how most of the chapters start with or have either the words, how or what. The word, how, is seen in the tittles of chapter; 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 13, 14,15 and 29. The word, what, is seen in the tittles of chapter; 2, 5, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23 and 28. Also, the chapters with out, how or what in them tend to have shorter tittles 8, 11, 12, 21, 24, 25, 26 and 30. These seem like almost note taking tittles, or questions that a teacher would …show more content…
I understand the antagonists name as the tittle but the word optimism I feel was an interesting choice. I almost feel like the author wanted to draw attention to the tutor, Pangloss’s. He spoke many optimistic words to Candide such as we live in, “the best of all possible worlds.” But, Candide, or Optimism, is also an ironic tittle in which both Pangloss andCandid go through many horrific events during this story. This also stems from the idea that cense God created the world and he is all powerful has the most capable mind imaginable, He could only create the most perfect world imaginable. Humans perceive evil only because they cannot comprehend the mind of God and his perfectness. Every tearable thing that happens is for the good of something. This is the idealistic definition of optimism, basically, everything happens for a purpose. It is interesting how even at the end of the story, Pangloss still has his optimism. After everything Candide and Pangloss go through together I know many people and characters would not have done the