Satire in Candide

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November 14, 2016

 

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When he wrote Candide in the late 18th Century, Voltaire took aim at Leibniz and other Enlightenment thinkers of that time in opposing that the universe was constructed by an infallible creator thus making this world equally sublime. Candide is the story of a young man, Candide, who is taught by Pangloss, his professor of "metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigology," that there is no effect without a cause and that everything is for the best...
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Candide, who believes these teachings as he starts out in his life, comes into contact with many horrors and hardships because he never does anything to help himself for he believes that everything that happens is for the best and that everything will work out. It is only at the end of his journeys that he finally turns to Pangloss and says, "That is well said, but we must cultivate our garden...
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