A MINOR PIECE FROM VOLTAIRE,

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 NOTES FROM CANDIDE
Candide:
 A french word,
 Means open,honest,clear,
 written by Voltaire in 1759,
 banned for its attack to Christianity,
 but reprinted 17 times in its first year,
Not a novel,a satiric fable!!!
Characters & events are not real,
INFORMATION

 About
 Places,
 Events,
 Charachters,
 Voltaire’s vision in Candide
PLACES”
 In Candide,there are 3 different places
represented as {GARDENS}
 At the beginning : a garden in Germany
 Toward the middle: garden-Eldorado in a South
American utopia,
 At the end: a communie in Turkey
EVENTS”

 ‘The Seven Years War’:a true war between French-

Indian
 death of british general by execution
CHARACTERS
 Candide is the main character;
 a young boy,
 Travels around the world,

 Thinks everything from its optimist side

In the book;
Candide and other characters shows changable
behaviors to the events and ,simply influenced from
external situations
THE VISION OF VOLTAIRE
 TWO ASPECTS Voltaire implies in the book
 1.Ignorance of philosophy
 2.Cultivation
 TWO ASPECTS
 Ignorance of philosophy:
- Voltaire’s emphasize that
philosophy does not help
with solving the problems in
the real life,just a game of
words.
 At the end of the book
Candide says “we must
cultivate our garden”
 In that sentence,Voltaire
implies people to focus
on their own life and try to
improve their own
personality
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

-Most famous writer in 18 th century,

-His christened name;Francoise Marie Arouet
-”Voltaire” the name he adopted later,
-Young writers identify him as “Chaos of clear ideas”
-Famous slogan”Crush the infamous thing” by he meant the Catholic church.