Candide and Enlightenment

Volt aviationes Candide both supported and ch wholly(a)enged traditional enlightenment viewpoints by the use of fictional non-western perspectives. Candide mockingly contradicts the typical foresight tone that world is rude(a)ly good and can be master over his get destiny (optimism). Candide faces m some(prenominal) hardships that are caused by the cruelty of adult male (such as the war between the Bulgars and Abares, Cunegonde being raped, etc) and events that are beyond his control (the seism in Lisbon).Voltaire did not believe that a perfect God (or any God) has to exist he mocked the idea that the world must be on the whole good, and he makes looseness of this idea without Candide. He also makes fun of the philosophers of the time, because the philosophers in the novel talk a lot, do nothing, and solve no problems at all. Candide also makes a mockery of the aristocracys tone of superiority by birth. Voltaire also addresses the corruption of the religious figures and the church thence destroying and challenging the Sacred Circle. Voltaires Candide is the story of one mans trials and sufferings through life.The main character is Candide. Candide is portrayed as a wanderer. He grew up in the Castle of the Baron of Westphalia, who was his mothers brother and was taught by, Dr. Pangloss, the greatest philosopher of the whole world. Pangloss taught Candide that everything that happens is for the best. Candide is exiled from the castle because of his love for the Barons daughter, Cunegonde. He then sets out to different places in the hope of conclusion her and achieving total happiness. Candide thought that everything happened for the best because the greatest philosopher taught him that, but everyone around him did not accept that theory.The optimistic Pangloss and Candide, suffer and witness a wide diversity of horrors beating, rapes, robberies, unjust executions, disease,and an earthquake, These things do not serve any apparent great good, but be a sign of the cruelty and madness of philanthropy and the lack of sympathy of the natural world. Pangloss manages to find justification for the terrible things in the world, but his arguments are sometimes stupid, for example, when the Anabaptist is about to drown he scratch Candide from saving him because he claims that the Bay of Lisbon had been formed specifically for the drowning of the Anabaptist. opposite characters, such as the old woman, Martin, and Cacambo, have all reached more hopeless conclusions about forgivingity and the world because of past experiences. One problem with Pangloss optimism was that it was not based on the real world, but on abstract arguments of philosophy. In the story of Candide, philosophy repeatedly proves to be useless and even destructive. It prevents characters from making realistic judgment of the world around them and from taking positive follow up to change hostile situations.Candide lies under debris after the Lisbon earthquake and Pan gloss ignores his requests for oil and wine and instead struggles to prove the causes of the earthquake. In some other scenario, Pangloss is coitus Candide of how he contracting venereal disease from Paquette, and how it came from one of Christopher Columbus men. He tells Candide that venereal disease was necessary because now Europeans were able to enjoy vernal world delicacies, like chocolate. The character Candide was the nephew of the Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, whose sister, was Candides mother.The barons sister, refused to marry Candides father because he only had seventy-one quarterings (noble lineages) in his coat of arms, while her own coat of arms had seventy-two (Candide, 1). This burlesque makes the aristocracys concern over the subtleties of birth look ridiculous. Candide explores the craft that was rampant in the Church and the cruelty of the clergy using a chassis of satirical and ironic situations such as, the Lisbon earthquake that kills tens of thousands of people and indemnity three fourth of Lisbon still the Portuguese Inquisition decides to come an auto-da-fe to appease God and prevent another disaster.This serves no purpose because another earthquake strikes in the middle of the hanging of Pangloss and beating of Candide. Church officials in Candide are portrayed as being among the approximately sinful of all citizens having mistresses, engaging in homosexual affairs, and operating as jewel thieves. The most ridiculous example of hypocrisy in the Church is the fact that a Pope has a daughter despite his vows of celibacy.Other examples are the Portuguese Inquisitor, who takes Cunegonde for a mistress, who hangs Pangloss and executes his fellow citizens over philosophical differences, and orders Candide to beaten for, listening with an air of approval (Candide, 13) to the opinions of Pangloss and a Franciscan friar who is a jewel thief, despite the vow of poverty taken by members of the Franciscan order. Finally, Voltaire introd uces a Jesuitic colonel with marked homosexual tendenci es.The profundity belief, in which a perfect ball club should be controlled by reforming existing institutions, is made to appear ridiculous, while erhaps all that Voltaire wanted to do was to present the history of his century with the worst abominations. It was probably Voltaires ability to challenge all authority that was his greatest contribution to Enlightenment values. He questioned his own parenthood and his morals to express his ideas to the world of Enlightenment through the novel Candide. In particular, the novel makes fun of those who think that human beings can endlessly improve themselves and their environment.Voltaire expresses his beliefs on optimism, philosophical speculation, and religion through the main character. Candide, The main character of the novel, is set adrift in a hostile world and unsuccessfully tries to hold on to his optimistic belief that this is the best of all possible worlds as his tutor, Pangloss, keeps insisting. He travels throughout Europe, southwestward America, and the Middle East, and on the way he encounters many terrible natural disasters. Candide is a good-hearted but hopelessly naive.