Essays on Candide

In his novel, Candide, Voltaire tells the story of how a young, inexperienced and optimistic son of a European baron is exiled from his family castle and begins an adventure where he finds the blunt reality of the violent and inhumane world of Voltaire’s time....

Naiveite, optimism, ignorance; among these few attributes lies, what Voltaire believes to be, the lackluster shortcomings of mankind. Voltaire’s, “Candide,” is a satirical novella that ridicules humanity’s flaws through quirky characters that serve as representatives of mans’ fallacious tendency to rely upon these qualities throughout...