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Ira Wade, a noted expert on Voltaire and Candide , has analyzed which sources Voltaire might have referenced in learning of the event.

Apart from such events, contemporaneous stereotypes of the German personality may have been a source of inspiration for the text, as they were for Simplicius Simplicissimus , [17] a satirical picaresque novel written by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen and inspired by the Thirty Years' War. The protagonist of this novel, who was supposed to embody stereotypically German characteristics, is quite similar to the protagonist of Candide.

Aldridge writes, "Since Voltaire admitted familiarity with fifteenth-century German authors who used a bold and buffoonish style, it is quite possible that he knew Simplicissimus as well. A satirical and parodic precursor of Candide , Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels is one of Candide ' s closest literary relatives.

This satire tells the story of "a gullible ingenue", Gulliver, who like Candide travels to several "remote nations" and is hardened by the many misfortunes which befall him. As evidenced by similarities between the two books, Voltaire probably drew upon Gulliver's Travels for inspiration while writing Candide. Likewise, Monbron's protagonist undergoes a disillusioning series of travels similar to those of Candide. He was a deist , a strong proponent of religious freedom, and a critic of tyrannical governments.

Candide became part of his large, diverse body of philosophical, political and artistic works expressing these views. This genre, of which Voltaire was one of the founders, included previous works of his such as Zadig and Micromegas. It is unknown exactly when Voltaire wrote Candide , [26] but scholars estimate that it was primarily composed in late and begun as early as Despite solid evidence for these claims, a popular legend persists that Voltaire wrote Candide in three days. Candide is mature and carefully developed, not impromptu, as the intentionally choppy plot and the aforementioned myth might suggest.

The existence of this copy was first postulated by Norman L. If it exists, it remains undiscovered. Voltaire published Candide simultaneously in five countries no later than 15 January , although the exact date is uncertain. Candide was translated once into Italian and thrice into English that same year. A Problem of Identification". The publication process was extremely secretive, probably the "most clandestine work of the century", because of the book's obviously illicit and irreverent content. Candide underwent one major revision after its initial publication, in addition to some minor ones.

With the additions found in the Doctor's pocket when he died at Minden , in the Year of Grace Voltaire strongly opposed the inclusion of illustrations in his works, as he stated in a letter to the writer and publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke:. Je crois que des Estampes seraient fort inutiles. I believe that these illustrations would be quite useless. These baubles have never been allowed in the works of Cicero , Virgil and Horace. Despite this protest, two sets of illustrations for Candide were produced by the French artist Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune.

Klee illustrated the work, and his drawings were published in a version edited by Kurt Wolff. Candide contains thirty episodic chapters, which may be grouped into two main schemes: By the former scheme, the first half of Candide constitutes the rising action and the last part the resolution. This view is supported by the strong theme of travel and quest, reminiscent of adventure and picaresque novels, which tend to employ such a dramatic structure.

For this infraction, Candide is evicted from the castle, at which point he is captured by Bulgar Prussian recruiters and coerced into military service, where he is flogged , nearly executed, and forced to participate in a major battle between the Bulgars and the Avars an allegory representing the Prussians and the French. Candide eventually escapes the army and makes his way to Holland where he is given aid by Jacques, an Anabaptist , who strengthens Candide's optimism.

Soon after, Candide finds his master Pangloss, now a beggar with syphilis. Pangloss is cured of his illness by Jacques, losing one eye and one ear in the process, and the three set sail to Lisbon. In Lisbon's harbor, they are overtaken by a vicious storm which destroys the boat. Jacques attempts to save a sailor, and in the process is thrown overboard. The sailor makes no move to help the drowning Jacques, and Candide is in a state of despair until Pangloss explains to him that Lisbon harbor was created in order for Jacques to drown. Only Pangloss, Candide, and the "brutish sailor" who let Jacques drown [48] survive the wreck and reach Lisbon, which is promptly hit by an earthquake, tsunami and fire that kill tens of thousands.

The sailor leaves in order to loot the rubble while Candide, injured and begging for help, is lectured on the optimistic view of the situation by Pangloss. Candide is flogged and sees Pangloss hanged, but another earthquake intervenes and he escapes. Her owners arrive, find her with another man, and Candide kills them both.

Candide and the two women flee the city, heading to the Americas. The old woman reciprocates by revealing her own tragic life: Just then, an alcalde a Spanish fortress commander arrives, pursuing Candide for killing the Grand Inquisitor. Leaving the women behind, Candide flees to Paraguay with his practical and heretofore unmentioned manservant, Cacambo. He explains that after his family was slaughtered, the Jesuits ' preparation for his burial revived him, and he has since joined the order. After lamenting all the people mainly priests he has killed, he and Cacambo flee. In their flight, Candide and Cacambo come across two naked women being chased and bitten by a pair of monkeys.

Candide, seeking to protect the women, shoots and kills the monkeys, but is informed by Cacambo that the monkeys and women were probably lovers. Cacambo and Candide are captured by Oreillons, or Orejones; members of the Inca nobility who widened the lobes of their ears, and are depicted here as the fictional inhabitants of the area. Mistaking Candide for a Jesuit by his robes, the Oreillons prepare to cook Candide and Cacambo; however, Cacambo convinces the Oreillons that Candide killed a Jesuit to procure the robe.

Cacambo and Candide are released and travel for a month on foot and then down a river by canoe, living on fruits and berries. After a few more adventures, Candide and Cacambo wander into El Dorado , a geographically isolated utopia where the streets are covered with precious stones, there exist no priests, and all of the king's jokes are funny.

The king points out that this is a foolish idea, but generously helps them do so. The pair continue their journey, now accompanied by one hundred red pack sheep carrying provisions and incredible sums of money, which they slowly lose or have stolen over the next few adventures. Candide and Cacambo eventually reach Suriname , where they split up: Candide's remaining sheep are stolen, and Candide is fined heavily by a Dutch magistrate for petulance over the theft.

Before leaving Suriname, Candide feels in need of companionship, so he interviews a number of local men who have been through various ill-fortunes and settles on a man named Martin. This companion, Martin, is a Manichaean scholar based on the real-life pessimist Pierre Bayle , who was a chief opponent of Leibniz. Candide, however, remains an optimist at heart, since it is all he knows. After a detour to Bordeaux and Paris , they arrive in England and see an admiral based on Admiral Byng being shot for not killing enough of the enemy.

Martin explains that Britain finds it necessary to shoot an admiral from time to time " pour l'encouragement des autres " to encourage the others. Upon their arrival in Venice , Candide and Martin meet Paquette, the chambermaid who infected Pangloss with his syphilis, in Venice. Although both appear happy on the surface, they reveal their despair: Paquette has led a miserable existence as a sexual object, and the monk detests the religious order in which he was indoctrinated.

Candide and Martin visit the Lord Pococurante, a noble Venetian. Prior to their departure, Candide and Martin dine with six strangers who had come for Carnival of Venice.

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These strangers are revealed to be dethroned kings: Candide buys their freedom and further passage at steep prices. One day, the protagonists seek out a dervish known as a great philosopher of the land. Candide asks him why Man is made to suffer so, and what they all ought to do. The dervish responds by asking rhetorically why Candide is concerned about the existence of evil and good. The dervish describes human beings as mice on a ship sent by a king to Egypt; their comfort does not matter to the king.

The dervish then slams his door on the group. Returning to their farm, Candide, Pangloss, and Martin meet a Turk whose philosophy is to devote his life only to simple work and not concern himself with external affairs. He and his four children cultivate a small area of land, and the work keeps them "free of three great evils: Candide ignores Pangloss's insistence that all turned out for the best by necessity, instead telling him "we must cultivate our garden" il faut cultiver notre jardin.

As Voltaire himself described it, the purpose of Candide was to "bring amusement to a small number of men of wit".

Candide is confronted with horrible events described in painstaking detail so often that it becomes humorous. Literary theorist Frances K. Barasch described Voltaire's matter-of-fact narrative as treating topics such as mass death "as coolly as a weather report". European governments such as France, Prussia, Portugal and England are each attacked ruthlessly by the author: Organised religion, too, is harshly treated in Candide. Aldridge provides a characteristic example of such anti-clerical passages for which the work was banned: Here, Voltaire suggests the Christian mission in Paraguay is taking advantage of the local population.

Voltaire depicts the Jesuits holding the indigenous peoples as slaves while they claim to be helping them. The main method of Candide ' s satire is to contrast ironically great tragedy and comedy. A simple example of the satire of Candide is seen in the treatment of the historic event witnessed by Candide and Martin in Portsmouth harbour. There, the duo spy an anonymous admiral, supposed to represent John Byng , being executed for failing to properly engage a French fleet.

The admiral is blindfolded and shot on the deck of his own ship, merely "to encourage the others" French: This depiction of military punishment trivializes Byng's death. The dry, pithy explanation "to encourage the others" thus satirises a serious historical event in characteristically Voltairian fashion. For its classic wit, this phrase has become one of the more often quoted from Candide.

Voltaire depicts the worst of the world and his pathetic hero's desperate effort to fit it into an optimistic outlook. Almost all of Candide is a discussion of various forms of evil: There is at least one notable exception: The positivity of El Dorado may be contrasted with the pessimistic attitude of most of the book. Even in this case, the bliss of El Dorado is fleeting: Another element of the satire focuses on what William F.

Bottiglia, author of many published works on Candide , calls the "sentimental foibles of the age" and Voltaire's attack on them. The characters of Candide are unrealistic, two-dimensional, mechanical, and even marionette -like; they are simplistic and stereotypical. Gardens are thought by many critics to play a critical symbolic role in Candide.

Cyclically, the main characters of Candide conclude the novel in a garden of their own making, one which might represent celestial paradise. The third most prominent "garden" is El Dorado , which may be a false Eden. This is analogous to Voltaire's own view on gardening: Candide satirises various philosophical and religious theories that Voltaire had previously criticised.

Primary among these is Leibnizian optimism sometimes called Panglossianism after its fictional proponent , which Voltaire ridicules with descriptions of seemingly endless calamity. Also, war, thievery, and murder—evils of human design—are explored as extensively in Candide as are environmental ills. Bottiglia notes Voltaire is "comprehensive" in his enumeration of the world's evils. He is unrelenting in attacking Leibnizian optimism.

Fundamental to Voltaire's attack is Candide's tutor Pangloss, a self-proclaimed follower of Leibniz and a teacher of his doctrine. Ridicule of Pangloss's theories thus ridicules Leibniz himself, and Pangloss's reasoning is silly at best. For example, Pangloss's first teachings of the narrative absurdly mix up cause and effect:.

It is demonstrable that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end. Observe, for instance, the nose is formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles. Following such flawed reasoning even more doggedly than Candide, Pangloss defends optimism.

Whatever their horrendous fortune, Pangloss reiterates "all is for the best" " Tout est pour le mieux " and proceeds to "justify" the evil event's occurrence. A characteristic example of such theodicy is found in Pangloss's explanation of why it is good that syphilis exists:. Candide, the impressionable and incompetent student of Pangloss, often tries to justify evil, fails, invokes his mentor and eventually despairs.

It is by these failures that Candide is painfully cured as Voltaire would see it of his optimism. This critique of Voltaire's seems to be directed almost exclusively at Leibnizian optimism. Candide does not ridicule Voltaire's contemporary Alexander Pope , a later optimist of slightly different convictions. Candide does not discuss Pope's optimistic principle that "all is right", but Leibniz's that states, "this is the best of all possible worlds".

However subtle the difference between the two, Candide is unambiguous as to which is its subject. This work is similar to Candide in subject matter, but very different from it in style: The conclusion of the novel, in which Candide finally dismisses his tutor's optimism, leaves unresolved what philosophy the protagonist is to accept in its stead. This element of Candide has been written about voluminously, perhaps above all others. The conclusion is enigmatic and its analysis is contentious.

Voltaire develops no formal, systematic philosophy for the characters to adopt. Many critics have concluded that one minor character or another is portrayed as having the right philosophy. For instance, a number believe that Martin is treated sympathetically, and that his character holds Voltaire's ideal philosophy—pessimism.

Others disagree, citing Voltaire's negative descriptions of Martin's principles and the conclusion of the work in which Martin plays little part. Within debates attempting to decipher the conclusion of Candide lies another primary Candide debate. This one concerns the degree to which Voltaire was advocating a pessimistic philosophy, by which Candide and his companions give up hope for a better world.

Critics argue that the group's reclusion on the farm signifies Candide and his companions' loss of hope for the rest of the human race.

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This view is to be compared to a reading that presents Voltaire as advocating a melioristic philosophy and a precept committing the travellers to improving the world through metaphorical gardening. This debate, and others, focuses on the question of whether or not Voltaire was prescribing passive retreat from society, or active industrious contribution to it. This argument centers on the matter of whether or not Voltaire was actually prescribing anything.

Roy Wolper, professor emeritus of English, argues in a revolutionary paper that Candide does not necessarily speak for its author; that the work should be viewed as a narrative independent of Voltaire's history; and that its message is entirely or mostly inside it. This point of view, the "inside", specifically rejects attempts to find Voltaire's "voice" in the many characters of Candide and his other works.

Indeed, writers have seen Voltaire as speaking through at least Candide, Martin, and the Turk. Wolper argues that Candide should be read with a minimum of speculation as to its meaning in Voltaire's personal life. His article ushered in a new era of Voltaire studies, causing many scholars to look at the novel differently. In Sweden as well as in Finland, the Napoleonbakelse Napoleon pastry is a mille-feuille filled with whipped cream, custard, and jam. The top of the pastry is glazed with icing and currant jelly. In Denmark and Norway , it is simply called Napoleonskake.

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