Candide mind map is Satire based Novella. Voltaire's best-known work is Candide, a satirical book published in 1759. Various tragedies in the mid-eighteenth-century impacted Voltaire's Candide, including the disastrous Lisbon earthquake of 1755, the commencement of the horrible Seven Years' War in the German kingdoms, and the unjust death of English Admiral John Byng. This philosophical fable is frequently hailed as an archetypal Enlightenment literature, yet it is also a satirical attack on the Enlightenment's optimistic beliefs.
Voltaire criticizes Leibniz's premise of adequate reason, which states that nothing can be true without a cause for it to be true. The conviction that the actual world must be the best humanly possible is a result of this principle. A satirical and parodic precursor of Candide, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) is one of Candide's closest literary relatives. This satire tells "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 drew upon Gulliver's Travels for inspiration while writing Candide. Other probable sources of inspiration for Candide are Télémaque (1699) by François Fénelon and Cosmopolite (1753) by Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron. Candide's parody of the Bildungsroman is probably based on the Télémaque, which includes the prototypical parody of the tutor.
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Candide
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Exiled from his German home, naive and optimistic Candide travels the world of the 1750s in search of truth, wealth, and lost love. Voltaire's satirical novella refutes the basic premise of philosophical optimism, a philosophy that states that we live in the best possible world: "Whatever is, is for the best."
Main Charcters
Pangloss
Candide's optimistic tutor
Cunegonde
Object of Candide's affection; turns ugly and mean
Candide
Impressionable young man
Cacambo
Candide's squire and friend; sold into slavery
Martin
Candide's pessimistic traveling companion
Young Baron
Candide's cousin; refuses to let Candide marry his sister
Themes
Fall of Optimism
Candide begins his journey believing in divine reasons for everything but learns that sometimes there's no explanation for evil.
Religious Intolerance
Voltaire's use of traditional stereotypes to represent different religions shows the absurdity of prejudice.
Money & Misery
Candide thinks his problems will be solved when he secures a large fortune, but it just leads to more issues.
Symbols
Red Sheep
Candide's one remaining red sheep (actually a llama) out of a flock of over 100 symbolizes his last shred of optimism.
Syphilis
Spread like original sin to people including Pangloss, its presence shows the dangers of empire building.
Garden
The garden where Candide and company finally make their home thrives on equal treatment and busy hands.
Numbering
1
Surviving manuscript, written in 1758
18
Hours per day Voltaire spent money
50
Cups of coffee Voltaire reportedly drank per day
3
Days it took Voltaire to write Candide, according to myth
Author
VOLTAIRE 1694-1778
Born Francois-Marie Arouet, Voltaire was a prolific writer and outspoken critic of government and religion who kept French tongues wagging through the 18th century. Voltaire was a human rights champion whose ideas are considered to be partly responsible for the French Revolution, which happened years after his death.
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Candide
Overview
Main Charcters
Themes
Exiled from his German home, naive and optimistic Candide travels the world of the 1750s in search of truth, wealth, and lost love. Voltaire's satirical novella refutes the basic premise of philosophical optimism, a philosophy that states that we live in the best possible world: "Whatever is, is for the best."
Pangloss
Candide's optimistic tutor
Cunegonde
Object of Candide's affection; turns ugly and mean
Candide
Impressionable young man
Cacambo
Candide's squire and friend; sold into slavery
Martin
Candide's pessimistic traveling companion
Young Baron
Candide's cousin; refuses to let Candide marry his sister
Fall of Optimism
Candide begins his journey believing in divine reasons for everything but learns that sometimes there's no explanation for evil.
Religious Intolerance
Voltaire's use of traditional stereotypes to represent different religions shows the absurdity of prejudice.
Money & Misery
Candide thinks his problems will be solved when he secures a large fortune, but it just leads to more issues.
Symbols
Red Sheep
Candide's one remaining red sheep (actually a llama) out of a flock of over 100 symbolizes his last shred of optimism.
Syphilis
Spread like original sin to people including Pangloss, its presence shows the dangers of empire building.
Garden
The garden where Candide and company finally make their home thrives on equal treatment and busy hands.
Numbering
1
Surviving manuscript, written in 1758
18
Hours per day Voltaire spent money
50
Cups of coffee Voltaire reportedly drank per day
3
Days it took Voltaire to write Candide, according to myth
Author
VOLTAIRE 1694-1778
Born Francois-Marie Arouet, Voltaire was a prolific writer and outspoken critic of government and religion who kept French tongues wagging through the 18th century. Voltaire was a human rights champion whose ideas are considered to be partly responsible for the French Revolution, which happened years after his death.
Candide
Overview
Exiled from his German home, naive and optimistic Candide travels the world of the 1750s in search of truth, wealth, and lost love. Voltaire's satirical novella refutes the basic premise of philosophical optimism, a philosophy that states that we live in the best possible world: "Whatever is, is for the best."
Main Charcters
Pangloss
Candide's optimistic tutor
Cunegonde
Object of Candide's affection; turns ugly and mean
Candide
Impressionable young man
Cacambo
Candide's squire and friend; sold into slavery
Martin
Candide's pessimistic traveling companion
Young Baron
Candide's cousin; refuses to let Candide marry his sister
Themes
Fall of Optimism
Candide begins his journey believing in divine reasons for everything but learns that sometimes there's no explanation for evil.
Religious Intolerance
Voltaire's use of traditional stereotypes to represent different religions shows the absurdity of prejudice.
Money & Misery
Candide thinks his problems will be solved when he secures a large fortune, but it just leads to more issues.
Symbols
Red Sheep
Candide's one remaining red sheep (actually a llama) out of a flock of over 100 symbolizes his last shred of optimism.
Syphilis
Spread like original sin to people including Pangloss, its presence shows the dangers of empire building.
Garden
The garden where Candide and company finally make their home thrives on equal treatment and busy hands.
Numbering
1
Surviving manuscript, written in 1758
18
Hours per day Voltaire spent money
50
Cups of coffee Voltaire reportedly drank per day
3
Days it took Voltaire to write Candide, according to myth
Author
VOLTAIRE 1694-1778
Born Francois-Marie Arouet, Voltaire was a prolific writer and outspoken critic of government and religion who kept French tongues wagging through the 18th century. Voltaire was a human rights champion whose ideas are considered to be partly responsible for the French Revolution, which happened years after his death.
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