...Watching Candide was a great experience for me. It was hard to grasp a lot of the details going on in the play, because it was hard to understand what the actors were saying. In the past, I have been to a number of plays that have been like candide but easier to understand. 1. My favorite aspect of the play was how well the actors performed. I thought the actors did excellent in getting the audience’s attention and keeping them engaged in the play. Although Candide was the main character of the play, Miss Cunegonde was my favorite actress because her vocals were outstanding and kept me focused. My favorite songs he sang were Life is happiness indeed and the ballad of Eldorado. 2. The second aspect I liked best was the costume design. All of the costumes were very unique and made it easy to tell what time period they are living in. As Candide moved to the different countries the costumes helped me figure out where these people were from. For example, when Candide went to a country with everyone wearing gold I could tell they were from Eldorado. 3. The third greatest aspect was the basic storyline of the play. I thought it was easy to come up with a summary of the play after watching it. Miss Cunegonde’s father prohibited Candide from seeing his daughter. Candide traveled around close to ten different places to find Miss Cunegonde and get married by a priest. Candide had to use a great deal of money he received from Eldorado in order to find Miss Cunegonde...
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...Candide Blog Lit 2013 Pangloss's Philosophy in Candide Throughout the book Pangloss has this ongoing philosophy that everything will always end wells and is for the best and that this world is the "best of all possible worlds" but throughout the book it proves that's likely not the case in almost every situation Candide gets him self into. Even at the end when you find out that Pangloss and the baron are actually still alive it still doesn't all seem exactly right. When Candide finally reunites with Cunagounde for good she has gotten old looking and ugly and even after all his adamant searching he debates even staying with her. Throughout the book after every horrible situation Candide gets into he usually miraculously escapes it as if some sort of fate is working with him to get him out of things. However when he finally escapes most perils he is so discontent and never satisfied that he's screws it up somehow and ends up in a worse situation than he was before. It's almost like karma is punishing him for his rash decisions like killing people on a whim with no thought about it. This ties into Pangloss's theories/attitude in that things in the end seem to find a way of working themselves out for Candide and yet he never seems satisfied and is always messing things up. In chapter 30 when he finally gets Cunagonde back she is ugly and he is only somewhat satisfied even after the giant trek to find her. And then when Pangloss and the Baron are found to be alive...
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...Candide Jarrae Harris Strayer University Professor Japola Hum 112 May 1, 2015 Candide Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) was a great philosopher more famously known as Voltaire. He was born in Paris, France in November 1694. He died in Paris eighty-three years later. He lived during the eighteenth century in a country town in Cirey. Voltaire was imprisoned and exiled for ridiculing the great leaders of the French court. He was famous for writing books and poetry. He wrote his most famous book titled “Candide, or Optimism” in 1758. This is a brief summary of Dr. Pangloss surprising beliefs. The passage reveals Candide and his philosophical mentor Dr. Pangloss’s reaction after escaping death. The elders of Lisbon decided to sacrifice a few people in order to prevent further earthquakes and destruction from happening in the town. The elders had a grand ceremony in which they burnt a few townspeople and hung Dr. Pangloss while Candide watched in fear. Dr. Pangloss taught Candide to believe no matter what happens to you in life it is good for you. After watching the people being burnt and Dr. Pangloss being hung, Candide began to wonder if this is the best of all possible worlds, where are the others? Candide was happy as well as confused to see Dr. Pangloss alive a well again. Dr. Pangloss told Candide the story how he was cut open by a surgeon, beat on the head by the surgeons wife because she...
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...Running Head: VOLTAIRE’S CANDIDE VOLTAIRE’S CANDIDE Trey Miller Professor Renee A. Pleasant HUM 112 January 15, 2015 VOLTAIRE’S CANDIDE The story that I decided to read was Voltaire’s Candide and it was very interesting. Voltaire’s Candide had a few surprises in the story that I did not expect before beginning to read. One of the surprise endings was that the scholars from a university could conclude human sacrifices in order to prevent future earthquakes. During those times there were a lot of strange laws and customs such as not eating bacon. Not eating bacon was cause for suspicion. In the story, there were two Portuguese citizens taken because they did not eat bacon. The characters, Dr. Pangloss was taken for being out spoken and Candide was taken for being Pangloss’ friend. The two Portuguese citizens along with another citizen were burned alive, while Dr. Pangloss was hung and Candide was flogged. All part of this ritual sacrificial ceremony was to prevent future earthquakes. Unfortunately, the ritual did not stop anything. On the day of the ceremony there was yet another earthquake, which implied the rituals did not work. The earthquake seemed to be more devastating than the first one and the only one to survive the ordeal was Candide. The biggest surprise would come later in the next chapter when Candide and Dr. Pangloss was able to reunite. It turns out in the story that Dr. Pangloss did not die from hanging. He was able to live and had...
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...Voltaire Candide Tasha Moore Jocelyn Thornton: World Cultures II July 27, 2014 Voltaire Candide The selections that I read from Voltaire Candide were very interesting. The first selection which is Chapter 6 of page 834 in out textbook states that basically Candide and his tutor Dr. Pangloss were being blamed for the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon on November 1, 1755. The paragraph that caught my eye was this “ The mitre and fanbenito worn by Candide were painted with flames reversed, and with devils that had neither tails not claws; but Dr. Pangloss’s devils had both tails and claws, and his flames were upright”. After this a chant followed and Dr. Pangloss was hanged. Now this is telling me that Dr. Pangloss was supposed to be burned just like the Biscayan and the two men who would not eat bacon, but he wasn’t. Why not? The garment that Pangloss wore had tails and claws, was it portrayed as being evil? He did not believe in the Bible, he believes in the book of nature. Did Pangloss believe in a cult, a theory? Does he believe that all people are just evil beings, no matter who the person is? The surprise ending is that Pangloss was not supposed to die because he believes that every person makes up their own destiny in life. Candide wanted to know why he did not die, why wasn’t he burned or hung? Candide he does not portray himself as being evil. Simply Pangloss thinks that it is logical that this happened to him. The ending I expected was for both Candide and Pangloss...
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...The dialect demonstrates Candide's advancement towards development. In the start of the novel the reader discovers conservative, beautiful and fresh sentences as Candide, the legend races through life. Later Voltaire embraces a quiet and intelligent style comparable to Candide's mental improvement. Voltaire ridicules the dialect of shallow thinkers who utilize a language of words and don't present anything beneficial. Pangloss is Candide is a solid case of such scholars. Voltaire once in a while utilizes a word or an expression, which is precisely the opposite he needs to say. Voltaire criticizes his contemporary society through his characters. Everything about portrayal increases the vital mind-set. Despite the fact that his parody is extreme,...
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...Candide On the surface, Candide by Voltaire, tells the story of a man who goes through many hardships and challenges to chase after the woman he loves. If one just looks at Candide’s story they might only see a potential hero’s journey. How the story is written, is what gives it deeper meaning. Voltaire builds his story and message on irony, exaggeration, double-speak, name-dropping, and historical drama. All of those components make up Voltaire’s satirical novel and they indicate a criticism of the society that Voltaire lived in during his life. He used satire to criticize every facet of society including the hypocrisy of religion, other writers, treatment of women, and any contemporary issues of the time. The criticisms show that Voitaire did not see the era that he lived in as the best possible world, but one that is ruled by chance and human cruelty lived. To him there is no “perfect” society. Candide is about the illegitimate nephew of a German nephew, Candide, who is expelled from the baron’s castle when he is caught kissing the Baron’s daughter, Cunégonde. He grew up in the Baron’s castle under the watch of a scholar named Pangloss. Pangloss main teaching to Candide is to see the world they live in as the best possible world and to see the optimism even in the darkest of situations. The book highlights what happens after Candide is expelled from the baron’s castle. This includes his quest to marry the baron’s daughter. Many dark events take place in Candide’s story; most...
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...Voltaire is the pseudonym taken by François-Marie Arouet as a writer and poet in France. The circumstances around Voltaire’s 1694 birth still remain a bit cloudy. While record shows Voltaire and his older brother Armand being raised in the middle-class house of a notary and minor bureaucrat named François Arouet, Voltaire insists throughout his life that his real father was the officer and songwriter Rochebrune. Voltaire’s mother died when he was seven, regardless of who you asked. He gained his education from the Jesuits. Here, his passion for the literary began. Soon he grew to question the philosophy of his teachers, causing the skepticism he is so well known for in his writing to flourish. He soon joined several liberal and radical thinking groups of the time, but these actions soon lead to his banishment from Paris. He began writing elsewhere and, after the success of his first play, Oedipe, he adopted the pseudonym, Voltaire. Soon Voltaire’s writings would grasp the intrigue of even the royals and he would become a court poet to Queen Maria Leszczynska. Being as liberal as he was, Voltaire was constantly embracing the new philosophy and religious thinking that was brought about by Enlightenment thinking. After a bit of time in the Queen’s company, Voltaire found himself exiled to London after getting into a quarrel with a man of nobility over a woman. Depressed by his new surroundings at first, Voltaire would soon come to very much appreciate the English culture. He went...
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...Voltaire’s Candide was published in January 1759 and is considered Voltaire’s signature work due to the criticism against social order, religion, and cruelty. Many people believe it is representative text for the Enlightenment however it actually satires the Enlightenment movement. In this paper I will be discussing how Voltaire portrayed religion, social order, war, slavery, crime and punishment. Portrayal of Religion Voltaire mocks and criticized many types of religions, these included Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam and Judaism. He mostly criticized the corruption found in the clergy of the Catholic Church. When following the Catholic religion they are many rules that you have to follow, especially if you are the pope. One rule is staying celibate and follow the example of Christ. In the book Candide meets an old women who was a daughter of a pope. This pope however did not follow the example of Christ as he allowed his daughter to wear dresses. “One of my dresses was...
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...the world around him, and his satirical works often angered the aristocracy around him. In Voltaire’s Candide, Candide’s adventure is told as a coming of age story. Voltaire wrote Candide this way to comment on the enlightenment ideas of the time through Candide’s responses. Voltaire was “not afraid to debunk the foolish facts and fancy of humanity,” (Academy) and used candide his vessel. Through Candide’s growth, Voltaire emphasizes the importance of exercising one’s own thought instead of blindly following others philosophies. When Candide begins his story in Westphalia, he is innocent...
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...Chapter 3: Bulgars massacring the German countryside Chapter 5: Sailor throwing Jacques the Anabaptist overboard Chapter 9: Candide kills the Grand Inquisitor and Don Issachar Chapter 15: Candide (the innocent and pure character) stabs Cunegondes brother only because he said he wouldn't let Candide marry her Chapter 23: Execution of Admiral John Byng because he didn't fight the French well enough Body IV: Poor Treatment and Perception of Women Topic Sentence: Chapter 3: Women were raped and disemboweled by the armies Chapter 8: Cunegonde being raped by a Bulgar soldier, then being sold to the Jew Don Issacar by the Bulgar capitan after he was tired of her; she was being "shared" by Don and the Grand Inquisitor Chapter 11: old woman taken as...
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...A novel written entirely in satire, Candide. Written by the famous writer, Voltaire, Candide tells the story of a young man, Candide, and his close friends' misadventures around the world. Voltaire, a French enlightenment writer believed in freedom of speech and to express his belief he wrote a novel dedicated to mocking life itself. The enlightenment, a period that occurred during the eighteenth century, was a time of refinement and understand. During this period people began to use science and logic as a way of thinking, instead of religion. Voltaire mocks issues such as cruel punishment, women's rights, and corrupt governors by using satire to portray an exaggerated event. However, these exaggerated events lead to an intellectual understanding of the irony and stupidity of these occurrences. Cruel and unusual punishment is a powerful issue that Voltaire mentions several times in Candide. He writes about these issues in either a comedic way or an exaggerated way. When Voltaire talks about how Candide was forced “to run the gauntlet six and thirty times through the whole regiment, or to have his brains blown out with a dozen musket-balls" (Chapter 2). He adds small details like, "six and thirty times," to make fun of the punishment. He also gives Candide the option of being shot by a dozen...
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...Candide Essay Assignment TA: Véronique Church-Duplessis Tutorial: 7-8 SS 2104 Sajid Borhan 998931036 Voltaire in his novella Candide portrays the adventures of a young man named Candide as he faces numerous difficulties after he is forced to leave his sheltered life of the court. Voltaire, in his satire, explores many themes. Voltaire being a critic of the Church does not show the religious institutions and the people associated with it in good light, as demonstrated by the various characters in Candide. There are few portrayals of religious characters in a positive tone. This essay will discuss and analyze Voltaire’s view on religion and how he expresses his discontent and negative impression. This essay will discuss the theme of religion as portrayed in the novel and will further reinforce Voltaire’s view on certain aspects with other primary and secondary sources. Religious intolerance was a subject Voltaire dealt with in many of his works, especially Candide. The part where Candide escapes from the Bulgarians and encounters a Protestant man and women who drive Candide away by throwing garbage on him shows religious intolerance and religious zeal, “The orator's wife, putting her head out of the window, and spying a man that doubted whether the Pope was Anti-Christ, poured over him a full.... Oh, heavens! To what excess does religious zeal carry the ladies...” There are many characters present in Candide which are associated with religion; however Voltaire...
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...Assignment 1: Reading Selection: Voltaire’s Candide REDACTED Dr. Davis HUM 112 July 27, 2014 Introduction Francois-Marie Arouet was a Parisian philosopher. Using the pen name Voltaire, he wrote “plays, novels, poems, and history” (Sayre, 2012, p. 815). Being a pessimist provided him the creativeness to write his greatest work named Candide. Chapter 6: An Act of Faith There are two surprise endings. One surprise ending came when Dr. Pangloss was taken away for unknown reasons or was selected along with Candice at random. I’m presuming it was for speaking his optimistic opinions against local ideals. The other surprise ending came when another earthquake occurred approximately a week after human sacrifices had concluded. The point of realization came when Candice deliberated the outcome of why Pangloss was hanged however, he may have resigned to accepting it as the people of Lisbon being evil and ignorant. Candice had previously discovered “a world filled with stupidity, plagued by evil, mired in ignorance...” (Sayre, p. 817). Additionally, another earthquake happened just over a week later even though an auto-de-fe was carried out to prevent earthquakes. The author somewhat convinced me of the surprise ending. However, confining both men for crimes that were not similar to the Biscayan and two Portuguese prevented me from accepting the full value of the surprise ending. The chapter does not give an indication of the reason for Pangloss being hanged versus...
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...Analysis of Voltaire’s Candide: A non-satirical composition of the most satirical piece of literature By: Westley (A.K.A Nicky Flash) Allen Westley Allen AP Literature Miss Gwaltney April 29, 2013 Through literary devices such as persuasion, sarcasm, and elegant rhetorics, Voltaire successfully composes possibly the most well-known satirical pieces of literature. Mad magazine, The Simpsons, and Saturday Night Live, examples of some of the comical staples that satiate our desire for humor. In our society, satire is among the most prevalent of comedic forms. This was not always true. Before the 18th century, satire was not a fully developed form. Satire, however, rose out of necessity; writers and artists needed a way to ambiguously criticize their governments, their churches, and their aristocrats. By the 18th century, satire was hugely popular. “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own”. (Swift) Satire as an art form has its roots in the classics, especially in the writings of Voltaire. Satire as it was originally proposed was a form of literature using sarcasm, irony, and wit, to bring about a change in society, but in the eighteenth century Voltaire, Jonathan Swift and William Hogarth expanded satire to include politics, as well as art. The political climate of the time was one of tension. Any criticism of government would bring harsh punishments, sometimes exile or death. In order to voice opinions without...
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