Essay on Voltaire’s Candide: Visualizing Perfection -- Candide essays

Visualizing Perfection in Candide "All is for the best...in the best of forevery possible worlds." To picture greatness, amendion and brilliance every last(predicate) intertwined into one splendiferous world -- a utopia, infers visualizing absolute beauty, harmony, and a universal tolerance amongst mankind. Would non such "perfection" designate the "best of all possible worlds?" How could we peradventure conceive the sinister world portrayed in Candide to be conveyed as "utopia?" Since the best of all possible worlds indicates that "all is for the best" is it not rubber to derive at the conclusion that since our world is clearly not "perfect" it is therefore implied that "all" is not for the best? Who determines the "right" from the "wrong," the "beautiful" from the "hideous," the " cockeyed" from the weak?" How does one know if they are right? How does one ever know if t hey chose "correctly?" How does one allow themself to be infatuated with an sight process as to blindly (correctly or incorrectly) follow it and believe? When do you suspicion yourself? Doubt and "double-guess" yourself? Such correlating topics of an ambiguous solution are sought to be explained in Candide. Voltaires masterpiece Candide recounts the journey of a young man as he ventures the world and faces reality, deals with it, is guided, transformed, and eventually defined by it. Voltaires story tells the humbug of Candide as his character matures from the naivete of a child to the extensive personality of a distinguished man. Born and raised in the castle of the male monarch of Thunder-ten-tronckh, in the land of Westphalia, Germany, Candide is firs... ...n the best of possible worlds for short, had you not been kicked out of a fine castle by the backside for the love of Miss Cunegund, had you not been put into the Inquisition, had you not traveled ove r America on foot, had you not run the Baron through the body, and had you not lost all your sheep which you brought from the broad(a) country of El Dorado, you would not have been here to eat hold citrons and pistachio nuts." Voltaire therefore exhibits both sides of the spectrum, Pangloss, the unchanging, and Candide the "developed." These adventures broadened the horizons of Candide, and with him, the reader also undergoes many thought provoking dilemmas, cultivating himself in many of the same ways. This tale doesnt flounder all hope of "perfection," but it does present, in laymens terms the ideas behind Murphys Law.