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Candide
In Westphalia, a province of Germany, Candide lives in the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh. ...
Candide wanders away from the best of all castles, sleeps in a field, and stops at an inn where he meets two soldiers. ... They ask Candide if he loves the King of the Bulgarians. Candide replies that he doesnt love the King of Bulgaria because he has not met him. Candide drinks to his health anyway. ... Candide decides to walk away from the regiment, reasoning that walking is a natural right for people. ... As punishment for desertion, Candide can choose between twelve shots to his head or thirty-six beatings from every soldier in a regiment of two thousand. Candide doesnt want either because he reasons he has free will. ... The narrator calls the King a genius because he pardons Candide on the grounds that Candide is an inexperienced philosopher. Candide recovers. ... Candide hides while thirty thousand soldiers die on the battlefield. ... He asks Candide if he believes the Pope is the antichrist. Candide says he doesnt know, but that he is hungry. The orator says Candide should starve, and the orators wife pours something on Candides head. Jacques the Anabaptist sees this cruel treatment and takes care of Candide.
One day, Candide sees a beggar who is sick and coughing. ... But Pangloss is tired and wants to rest and eat before he tells Candide what happened. Candide takes him to the stable of Jacques the Anabaptist and gives him food. ... Candide faints, recovers, and asks what happened to the best of all possible worlds. Candide naively wonders if Cunégonde died from the trauma of losing him when he was expelled from the Barons castle. ... Candide faints again. ... Pangloss tells Candide that love is the sufficient reason. ... Candide is skeptical on how could a great thing like love, produce such horrible results? ... As they left on a ship a terrible demonstration of Mother Nature’s fury ravaged the crew as Candide and Pangloss arrive at Lisbon. ... Candide thinks it must be Judgment Day.
In Lisbon, Candide is flogged to stop earthquakes. ... After Candide tells her of what happened to him she begins to tell him what has happened to her since they last seen each other.
Approximate Word count = 1857
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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