Candide

Candide by Voltaire is a love story that revolts around two young lovers who by forces of destiny are forced to part ways. The end result is a constant quest for love and happiness, but the question is how far is one willing to go to find love and happiness? How much is one willing to do to achieve their ultimate goal?Candide a young man who falls in love or what he thinks is love with a beautiful young woman by the name of Cunegonde has to fight nature, mankind, and him to find the apple of his eye. Throughout the work the theme of love is emphasized, Candide does anything and everything he can to win Mrs. Cunegonde's heart, he suffer a great deal and really is never happy. Pangloss the great philosopher of optimism teaches Candide that this world is the best of all places and that everything happens for a reason. This philosophy gives Candide hope that one-day things will get better, but he refuses to see the reality of the world, as it really is a cruel and unforgiving place. Nevertheless, there is always hope, but we must be realistic, we must take into consideration both sides of the spectrum not just what we want to see or believe. Martin who is the philosopher of realism sees things how they really are and believes that God left the world to some malignant being and is now is too late to save mankind from destruction. There is one flaw with Martin though he never has hopes, goals, or dreams to look forward to and as a result he has no hope to ever be happy someday.Voltaire uses satire to get his points across to the reader, for example when Pangloss is being hung as an auto de fe he still believes that the world is for the best and that everything happens for a reason. When in reality any sane person in his place will be kicking and screaming if they were being hung. Then Candide at the end of the piece finally finds Mrs. Cunegonde, but even though he has what he always wanted right in front of him Candide is left working in a farm and what he once thought a beauty turn into a beast. Pangloss at the end tries to preach his philosophy once again to fair Candide as they are working on the farm, but Candide just says "that is all good Pangloss, but we must get to work." As if he was literally telling him to shut up and get to work.Candide went great distances for love, but at the end his love turn to dust, dust where he cultivates on his farm, but that is all he had left from his quest, a farm and dust everything else was gone or ruin. Voltaire's purpose for this satire is to show the flaws and insignificance of mankind in hope that one-day man will turn his imperfection to a world of fairness, justice and love. We must take the time to think of life and what we really want from it. If we do this we will be able to hold on to our dreams a little longer and if we hold on to our dream long enough who knows one day they might became a reality. So we must take the steps necessary to achieve our goals and dreams or else time will run out. Life is game get what you want from it because we never know when our time is going to come to say game over. In everything we do we must consider all the ends of the spectrum, we must think if the juice is worth to squeeze, does the end justify the means and if it does then we must keep our hopes alive. When you find something that is worth fighting for fight for it because if you don't then man is doom to mediocrity!