Candide by Voltaire
Candide starts the story as an optimistic person just like his teacher Pangloss. Candide is a faithful student, but as his life goes on he begins to change the way he looks at things. Candide foolish way of thinking starts to melt away, as his experience the world more. He starts to think and becomes convinced that evil is part of the world. Candide comes to the realization that even when you do good things you don’t always get good things back in return. He shows you throughout the story how tough and hard the world is and how it’s a struggle to survive.
To me Candide is a reflection of philosophical views and values of the enlightenment was anti-feudalism. Voltaire novels satire of the old regime ideology, that critic’s society, religion and political ideas of that time. The philosophers opposed the separations in the old regime. Voltaire portrays the hypocrisy if the nobility a lot throughout the book. Like when we meet the Baron thunder ten tronckh. Voltaire describes the castle that he lives in as luxurious, even though it’s in Westphalia where it’s was a moderate estate. Baron they lived off the work of the lower class people, justifying it by being born into the right of having power.
Even the Barons sister don’t want to marry Candide’s father …show more content…
The most influential of the religions was the Catholic Church, which was considered sacred and even then the state in charge. Even though Voltaire was a deist, he hated the church clergy for its corruption, hypocrisy. Because as a child he had bad things happen to him plus on all the things he experience in life. He really hated them with a special hatred toward Jesuits. But his hate went farther than just catholic, Voltaire condemned protestant clergy the same as catholic persists. But Voltaire did believe in religious equality; he strongly believed in anti-Semitic views, he called Jews
Candide starts the story as an optimistic person just like his teacher Pangloss. Candide is a faithful student, but as his life goes on he begins to change the way he looks at things. Candide foolish way of thinking starts to melt away, as his experience the world more. He starts to think and becomes convinced that evil is part of the world. Candide comes to the realization that even when you do good things you don’t always get good things back in return. He shows you throughout the story how tough and hard the world is and how it’s a struggle to survive.
To me Candide is a reflection of philosophical views and values of the enlightenment was anti-feudalism. Voltaire novels satire of the old regime ideology, that critic’s society, religion and political ideas of that time. The philosophers opposed the separations in the old regime. Voltaire portrays the hypocrisy if the nobility a lot throughout the book. Like when we meet the Baron thunder ten tronckh. Voltaire describes the castle that he lives in as luxurious, even though it’s in Westphalia where it’s was a moderate estate. Baron they lived off the work of the lower class people, justifying it by being born into the right of having power.
Even the Barons sister don’t want to marry Candide’s father …show more content…
The most influential of the religions was the Catholic Church, which was considered sacred and even then the state in charge. Even though Voltaire was a deist, he hated the church clergy for its corruption, hypocrisy. Because as a child he had bad things happen to him plus on all the things he experience in life. He really hated them with a special hatred toward Jesuits. But his hate went farther than just catholic, Voltaire condemned protestant clergy the same as catholic persists. But Voltaire did believe in religious equality; he strongly believed in anti-Semitic views, he called Jews