Within the pages of Candide Voltaire portrays the ideas of pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger and greed outside of paradise and in the imperfect world. As Voltaire incorporates these he also expresses his cogitations of the lunacy of optimism, the impracticality of philosophic conjecture, the noxious powers of money, the sanctimonious quality of religion along with the thoughts resurrection of the body, sexual exploitation and oppression.
Pangloss teaches, or better yet dictates, to the passive Candide that “everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.” Voltaire portrays the philosophy with the idea the presence of any evil in the world, without reason or serving a greater good, would be a signal that God is partly malefic and not entirely benefic or not omnipotent. The optimist and the non-opinionated , Pangloss and Candide, were subjected to and witnessed a variety of horrors “flogging”, rapes, robberies, executions, disease, natural disasters , and......
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