Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)

François-Marie Aloe (1694 - 1777), later named Voltaire, was the illegitimate son of a wealthy notary who died when he was seven years old. He received education at the Jesuit school in Paris. His father wanted him to study the law, but he decided to pursue a literary career. Voltaire is a friend of the Prussian Friedrich the Great and is a guest. He wrote many plays, essays and poems, and was a great success. In 1758, 64 years old, he wrote his masterpiece - Candide or Optimism

Frankly, "A boy (illegal like Voltaire), nature gives the most gentle character.His face represents his soul.He has a firm decision and a perfect heart This trump novel talks about the adventures and sufferings of Candid all over the world.

In the first chapter, he was kicked out of Westphalia Castle Baron von Thunder to kiss his true love, Baron's 17-year-old daughter and the baroness - the beautiful Cunegonde

Dr. Panglos is a leader of Candide and can prove that there is no reason not to be effective and in this best world his sovereign castle is the best castle and her women are all possible It is the best among gangs. "That is an optimist. Through the role of Pangloss, Voltaire satanized the doctrine of Leibniz that this is the best among all possible worlds. Leibnitz believes that Almighty and Merciful God can not create a world other than the world's best.

In addition, Pangloss is a utopian socialist who killed Rousseau's word about the origin of inequality in 1755. After her jewels and money were stolen, Knegonde asked: "What are we going to do? How do we manage?" ... "Good Pangloss often shows me "Candide sighed," The things of this world are common to all people, and everyone has equal rights to them. "

The rest of the book shows the stupidity of the Pangloss philosophy. It eventually turned into a study of the nature of evil. How does the reality of the world evil harmonize with the existence of sacred and omnipotent creator?

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Emily Houser is a doctorate. Author of Yale's classic work, "The most beautiful: Random House of Trojans" (Penguin Random House, 2016). She studied the classics at the University of Cambridge, where she got a double priority and received the Classic Learning Capacity Award of the University of Cambridge University. Her academic research has won several awards, including the Cambridge Bati Scholarship and Hallam Prize, and the Yale Alice Darby Lang Award.

Optimism as Candide's theme is exactly the same as title, Candide or optimism, and optimism is also used as a theme. The irony of Voltaire's philosophical optimism is one of the main problems of Candide. Through the story, the irony of "the best possible world" is compared with natural disasters and human errors. According to Wikipedia, "Optimism is the opposite of pessimism, which is a view of life, the world is seen as a positive place, optimists generally believe it