Candide

In Voltaire’s Candide, he obviously wants and attempts to verbalize his thoughts on a subject that cannot be and must be disguised in a storybook form on the state of the world. As we can see, Voltaire’s novella discusses some extreme situations in the world during that time and critiques topics such as the theory of Optimism in order to obligate his readers to surface and think about the issues that were at hand.
In Candide, I believe there are a number of things that Voltaire is in complete disagreement with and wishes to critique thoroughly by means of comparison to certain states of belief and circumstance. First, I believe Voltaire is critiquing aspects of the theory of Optimism by relating it to certain natural disasters and unfortunate circumstances that occurred. For example: Voltaire unreasonably being thrown out of Lady Cunégonde's - his mistress - castle and afterwards being forced into service with the Bulgar army and fights in a pointless war in which......

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Title: Candide
Approximate Word Count: 764
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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