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I can remember every aspect of the day in Brazil when I discovered my best friend had died due to an unidentified illness. I will never forget the day a week prior that members of the community and I were informed that we had the opportunity to provide Guilherme with the blood that he urgently required to survive. The notion that blood was not readily available as it is in my home country was an inconceivable concept to me as an American, a citizen of the developed world. It is because of my…

Seeing is Not Always Believing The line “We must cultivate our garden”(Voltaire 130) in François-Marie Arouet Voltaire 's novella Candide symbolizes the idea that in order to redress a corrupt society we must “cultivate” ourselves by changing our perspective. In the novella Candide, the titular protagonist Candide embarks on a perilous journey with some companions to find his lover Cunegonde. However, Candide and numerous characters face grave tragedies and downfalls because of their inability…

In Badlandia, a Civil War was about to erupt due to The Wiggles, The Dancers, and The Couch Potatoes fighting over the control of the power. In last attempts to restore peace to humanity and get rid of ethnic and religious conflicts, the former leaders (Wiggles, due to the tyranny of the majority) of the Royal system set out to find a solution, and they assigned the task of solving all the problems of the country with 10 million people to one man, a first-year law student to construct a new…

How Does the Characterization of Pangloss and Martin affect how Candide conveys Voltaire’s Message? In Candide, Voltaire illustrates the direct and indirect characterization of Pangloss and Martin to convey the deeper meaning of society through the life and increase maturity level of Candide. Voltaire portrays the companionship between Pangloss and Candide compared to Martin and Candide through the use of satire and rhetorical devices such as exaggeration, euphemism, and comparison and…

this sort of religious positive thinking that energizes daze religious confidence and demonstrates its defects through Candide 's shocking encounters amid his excursion around the globe, for example, the suffocating of Jacques the Anabaptist, the Lisbon Earthquake and the hanging of Pangloss. After these horrendous encounters, Candide questions regardless of whether these debacles truly are for the best in the "most ideal of all universes." Why, he asks, would it be able to be God 's will that…

In this essay I will be examining the principle of direct effect and supremacy. I will be discussing how they were created and their development also the relationship between the two. I will start off by defining them first, then stating how they were created and developed and lastly discussing their relationship. Direct effect is the principle that Union law may, if appropriately framed, confer rights on individuals which the courts of member states of the European Union are bound to recognise…

The French social and political situation in the eighteenth century became the basis for Voltaire’s fruitful writing experience. Candide was a scandalous, yet exemplary, literary piece that exposed, through the use of satire, the threat philosophical doctrines presented to devoted listeners. With its abundant religious references, the philosophical tale examines whether Optimism can justify the omnipresent evil. The ambivalent meaning of the title Candide ou l’Optimisme can be explained as the…

The most influential ideas in history are found in the writings by the wisest of writers. Voltaire, along with other Enlightenment thinkers such as Montesquieu, were against several ideas brought on to society by the government. During 1740 to 1790, a philosophical movement, known as the Enlightenment, emphasized the use of reason, nature, progress, and individualism. Voltaire targets several Enlightenment tenet in his writings. Candide, one of his most famed works, tells the story of a young…

Are you Plastic? Satire is a form of insidious comedy that can often teach valuable life lessons. This particular literary device uses various forms of humor, irony, hyperbole and incongruity to mock a person’s stupidity and ignorance. During the Enlightenment era, a time of intellectual and cultural advancement, the use of satire enters into the writings of both Voltaire and Miguel de Cervantes. Although these stories were written in the distant past, the idea of satire can be applied to the…

"One day will come when you France, you Russia, you Italy, you Britain, you Germany, you all the nations of the continent, without losing your distinctive qualities and your glorious individuality, you will blend into a superior unity. […] One day will come when there will be no other battlefields than the markets opening themselves to commerce, and the minds opening themselves to ideas. […] One day will come when […] the bombs will be replaced with the […] venerable arbitrage of a great…