Meaning Of Home In Voltaire's Candide

Home is different from a house since it has sentimental values attached to them: it represents not only a place of dwelling, but also a community where a family belongs. Due to the trend of linking affection with the family, home is essentially a place that provides one with warmth, comfort, love, sense of acceptance, and stability. But those attitudes toward home are not always found in everyone; one may be innately be adverted from it, like the case of many adventure-takers such as Robinson Crusoe. And there are the ones who find the home as a utopia, such as in the case of Candide. Even though two men start with two different views on the meaning of home, one being dull and another being comfortable, through their journey, two men make …show more content…
Pangloss and the intimacy with amiable Cunegonde. However, unfortunately, he was casted out of his “earthly paradise” (Voltaire, Chapter 2), and he is lost with even more unfortunate events that follow. At the point of departure, he does not rationally choose to progress due to his affection to his home. Rather, he lingers around the town of Westphalia to ease his hunger and all the bodily needs that start to lack being a homeless individual, until he is taken as an army for King of Bulgars and goes on in his life. After thrown out of the house, series of misfortunes awaits Candide; even though the lessons from Pangloss on optimisms of life, Candide admires the days that he enjoyed the life in the castle, with his beloved …show more content…
Even though the argument is valid, the amount of times that Crusoe spends at the sea is incomparable to that he spends on my theorized home of Crusoe. Home does not have to be a place that one stays for a good portion amount of time; however, the degree does matter. Crusoe finds more progress in his soul in the theorized homes, more so than his sea journey. Another may argue that the meaning of home for Candide should not be too poorly judged, because now he is leading a life of regularity, which could have not been offered for his life. Again, while the argument is true, Candide makes progress not only to the world outside of Westphalia, but also to the minds of himself; when he has seen the greatest place on the Earth, but could not live the life as his ideals, why would he be eternally satisfied with living with the people that he shared his journeys with, when all of those people are growing unthankful everyday, making no positive progress of any