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Voltaire was an important member of the Enlightenment movement in France, and of special significance was his eighteenth century work Candide. ... Pangloss, and the beliefs
and institutions criticized by Voltaire. ... In Candide, Voltaire used the character of Candide to embody the enlightened
perspective, as he is born into a feudal society and travels the world making observations and
reasoning about what he sees. ... [1] (Voltaire,
19)
Despite the noble claims that all is for the best, we find Candide exercising his
enlightened perspective when he says I must admit that regrettable things happen in this
world of ours, moral and physical acts that one cannot approve of. (Voltaire, 48) Also
Candide recognizes the true meaning of optimism after meeting a deformed slave who still
had hope: It is the passion for maintaining that all is right when all goes wrong with us.
(Voltaire, 86)
Candide spends much of the story in search of the Lady Cunegonde, who as the
daughter of a Baron, can be seen as representing the nobility.
Approximate Word count = 818
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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