Pangloss And Voltaire's Candide

As something is being cultivated the plan or goal is to develop a quality or sentiment that will encourage something to grow as it should. Land is cultivated so that it may bear plants that are full and nutritious to make good for eating. What’s bad in the soil is dismissed by the plowing that is done to it through the process of cultivation. As in Novel

Candide by Voltaire the last words “All that is true, but let us cultivate our own garden.”, the metaphor mentioned by Candide of a garden is the life that we as human beings live with the intent on growing what we want to in that Garden.

At the beginning or the novel Candide believes what Pangloss says about everything happens for the greater good. But as the writing continues Candide sees that this may be right, but in order to make things better you must first focus on what is restricting yourself to your immediate life and don't concern yourself with the grand troubles of the whole world but one must concern their selves with making the world we live in a better place.

In Candide optimism is paramount, optimism is the reason Dr. Pangloss and Candide maintain the idea that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. Pangloss and Candide suffer and witness floggings, rapes, robberies, unjust executions, disease, and earthquakes. On page eight of the Novel Candide and his mentor Pangloss are discussing a lady by the name of Paquette who has contracted syphilis that is said to come all the way from a companion of

Christopher Columbus. Candide says “Oh Pangloss, what a strange genealogy! Is not the Devil the original stock of it?” Pangloss replied, “Not at all, it was a thing unaviodable, a necessary ingredient in the best of worlds; for if

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Voltaire does not accept that a perfect God or any God has to exist, he can afford to mock the idea that the world must be completely good, and he satire on this idea throughout the novel. Voltaire satirizes religion by series of corrupt, hypocritical religious leaders who appear throughout the novel. An example of this In Candide the daughter of a Pope, a man who as a Catholic priest should have been celibate, a extreme Catholic man who hypocritically keeps a mistress.

Towards the end of the novel Candide and a couple others are in a garden just enjoying the harvest of the vegetables. Pangloss, seeing this compares it to the Garden of Eden because of the beauty that it processes, and also because Adam and Eve enjoyed the bliss which God made.

However, the comparison that Pangloss makes is somewhat conflicted, in the

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