Heather Thornburg
Eng. 262 WA
Sorina Riddle
9/20/2015
Optimism As we go through life optimism gives us hope for something better. It is what gives us positivity in a negative world. Candide expresses this throughout the book with holding on to Pangloss’s theory of optimism. If he gave up on that outlook at life he would have not made it as far as he did and let alone find his love Miss Cunégonde. Even when Miss Cunégonde loses her beauty Candide show she has gained something else more meaningful. This story to me shows more of a love story then the satire itself. Even in play writes of this story it is shown through “Hellman and Bernstein may have first been attracted to Candide for its potential as political satire, their revisions throughout …show more content…
Where he is taking lessons on optimism from Pangloss and falling in love with Miss Cunégonde. Pangloss philosophy is “… there cannot possibly be an effect without a cause… (Puchner, pg.356).” This drives Candide throughout the whole story. His cause is being with his love Miss Cunégonde and as long as she was safe he would endure anything thrown at him. Pangloss philosophy is proven in chapters 6 and 7 when Pangloss and Candide do not eat the bacon that was served for seasoning and was taken into custody. From there Candide was flogged in front of everyone to see and Pangloss was hanged. Without this public event Miss Cunégonde which was actually still alive would have never seen/ found Candide again. This cause and effect happens throughout the entire story which always seems to bring Candide and Miss Cunégonde back …show more content…
Even though there was no evil or want there in the way of needing things there was still an internal void that Candide needed to fill. You cannot buy the feeling of true love with possessions and worldly things as the people of Eldorado had. I think if Candide has Miss Cunégonde with him then he would have stayed in Eldorado. In Michael Woods over view of Candide and his story he also feels that “Eldorado is perfect, but perfection itself is a problem in Voltaire 's view, as his recurring allusions to the Garden of Eden also suggest… After a month in Eldorado, Candide decides the place is not for him because Cunégonde is not there, and also because he doesn 't want to be like everyone else.” This shows that utopia or perfection is definitely in the eye of the beholder and there is more to this world. It shows that Candid hope and optimism for his life with Miss Cunégonde out ways the peacefulness he could have staying in
Eng. 262 WA
Sorina Riddle
9/20/2015
Optimism As we go through life optimism gives us hope for something better. It is what gives us positivity in a negative world. Candide expresses this throughout the book with holding on to Pangloss’s theory of optimism. If he gave up on that outlook at life he would have not made it as far as he did and let alone find his love Miss Cunégonde. Even when Miss Cunégonde loses her beauty Candide show she has gained something else more meaningful. This story to me shows more of a love story then the satire itself. Even in play writes of this story it is shown through “Hellman and Bernstein may have first been attracted to Candide for its potential as political satire, their revisions throughout …show more content…
Where he is taking lessons on optimism from Pangloss and falling in love with Miss Cunégonde. Pangloss philosophy is “… there cannot possibly be an effect without a cause… (Puchner, pg.356).” This drives Candide throughout the whole story. His cause is being with his love Miss Cunégonde and as long as she was safe he would endure anything thrown at him. Pangloss philosophy is proven in chapters 6 and 7 when Pangloss and Candide do not eat the bacon that was served for seasoning and was taken into custody. From there Candide was flogged in front of everyone to see and Pangloss was hanged. Without this public event Miss Cunégonde which was actually still alive would have never seen/ found Candide again. This cause and effect happens throughout the entire story which always seems to bring Candide and Miss Cunégonde back …show more content…
Even though there was no evil or want there in the way of needing things there was still an internal void that Candide needed to fill. You cannot buy the feeling of true love with possessions and worldly things as the people of Eldorado had. I think if Candide has Miss Cunégonde with him then he would have stayed in Eldorado. In Michael Woods over view of Candide and his story he also feels that “Eldorado is perfect, but perfection itself is a problem in Voltaire 's view, as his recurring allusions to the Garden of Eden also suggest… After a month in Eldorado, Candide decides the place is not for him because Cunégonde is not there, and also because he doesn 't want to be like everyone else.” This shows that utopia or perfection is definitely in the eye of the beholder and there is more to this world. It shows that Candid hope and optimism for his life with Miss Cunégonde out ways the peacefulness he could have staying in