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He realizes that a sense of fulfillment and a life well-lived comes from hard work and the simple things in life. The Turk explains the mystery behind hard work keeps the mind occupied. Through cultivating his estate with his children, he is keeping away "three great evils: boredom, vice, and need" (100). Through his interaction with the Turk, Candide realizes that every human being is responsible for making the world a better place to live. In order for this to happen, people must connect with one another and work to make the world a safe and pleasant place to live. People working on their lives is the symbolism found in the notion of people cultivating their own gardens. Candide's travels lead him all over the world where he realizes that good and evil exist everywhere. In fact, they must coexist in order for us to appreciate the good in life. Candide also realizes that this attitude is the best one to have and once he accepts this, life is better and he is more comfortable. He is free from previous constraints and can seek out happiness and his destiny comfortably. He is empowered with this knowledge and he understands that every opportunity we face provides us with the opportunity to do something good....
After his long journey, he states, "All events are all linked together in the best possible worlds" (101). Candide's acceptance allows him to feel more fulfilled.
Voltaire wants us to learn from Candide that we must all do our part to make the world a better place. It is important to note that Candide's character remains almost exactly as he was at the beginning of the story. While it is true that he decides that Pangloss is nothing more than a fool, he is still easily influenced by others. The Turk proves to make an impression on him and his words and deeds appeal to Candide's sensibilities in that they allow him to remain true to his nature. At the end of the novel, Candide replaces Pangloss' fluffy philosophizing with the notion of hard work and labor being true character builders. He does place an incredible amount of faith in the Turk and follows him blindly as he did Pangloss but because he has opted for the better of the two, he becomes heroic and reinforces Voltaire's assertion that what we do is far ore important than what we say is evident is Candide's adventures.
Work Cited
Voltaire. Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories. New York: Signet Classics.…
Work Cited
Voltaire. Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories. New York: Signet Classics. 1961.
Candide LIFE IS WORTH LIVING Voltaire earned much fame and criticism at the same time for his powerful crusade against injustice and bigotry, expressed in brilliant literature. He went up against the government and the Catholic hierarchy, particularly because of the Grand Inquisition. His character, Candide, was very much patterned after his own personality and experience, but his character begins by believing in goodness as prevailing in the world and ends the
Aside from Candide and Pangloss, the character who suffers the most in this novel and demonstrates that the world is far from the best of all possible places is Cudgeon's servant, the old woman. With the characterization of the old woman, Voltaire makes it quite clear that he is satirizing human suffering and the value of philosophy that seeks to endorse or even defend one's existence in such a cruel
On the one hand his gesture can be interpreted as the desire to reconstruct the original garden of paradise. This hypothesis could be supported by the name of the character and the reader could understand that he maintains his innocence despite having seen and experienced the evil which characterizes the real world. The fact that he dedicates himself to gardening also suggest that his awareness regarding the fact that if
The group does not end up at a house or on the road or at a castle but in a garden, at work where new seeds can grow, yield produce and perhaps enhance the quality of life. As members of a small group of individuals away from the world's corruption, they can each have a personal task as well as set and reach goals together. This, after all, is what
" (Voltaire, Chapter 30) as much as the reader might have suspected Pangloss' increasing embitterment, irrational emotional ties to creed, in the world of the novel, still hold true, although rather than believe him or attempt to show disrespect towards the former tutor who has proved so useless to him, Candide stresses that the mans remarks are "excellently observed...but let us cultivate our garden." (Voltaire, Chapter 30) Let us, in other
He has refused to see the world clearly for so long, that once he has no choice other than to apprehend reality with its full force, it hurts him to see Cunegund grown ugly and shrill, and himself in mean and reduced circumstances. He resolves to find some inner strength and bear down upon his ill temperament, to make his garden grow and to take pleasure in the simple tasks