The Literary Analysis Of The Novel Candide

The young Candide, whose name reflects both the naivety and gullibility, lives in "the best of possible worlds" with his uncle, the Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh. Illegitimate child, Candide leads a happy life in this idyllic world: The Baron and Baroness of Thunder-ten-Tronckh have indeed "the most beautiful castles. Candide is amazed by the power of his uncle, and by soothing the sophistries of Dr. Pangloss, the preceptor. He also admires Cunegonde, the Baron's daughter. Everything changes early antics of Candide and Cunegonde. The reaction was brutal Baron, Candide is banished and driven from this Eden. He finds himself in "the wide world" (Weightman, 1991).

Candide is caught in a snowstorm and know hunger and cold. He is conscripted as a soldier of the Bulgarian army. I ran away. Captured and sentenced to receive four thousand blows. He narrowly escaped death. He then attends to the war and its massacres are a "heroic butchery." Candide deserted and fled to Holland. He discovered intolerance, including the hypocrisy of a sectarian preacher Huguenot. He finds Pangloss ravaged by syphilis. His former tutor looks like a beggar. He learns that the beautiful castle of Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh was destroyed and Cunegonde was raped and disemboweled by Bulgarian soldiers. The Bulgarian army has also killed the Baron, Baroness, and their son. Candide and Pangloss is collected and employed by Jacques, a good Anabaptist who took him to Portugal, where his business calls. Alas, off Lisbon, their ship is experiencing a horrible storm. The boat's generous merchant is sunk and the latter died in the sinking. Candide and Pangloss have survived miraculously. Upon arrival in Lisbon, occurs a terrible earthquake. Candide and Pangloss participate rescue them, but our two heroes are arrested for subversive and brought about the Inquisition. Pangloss is hanged and Candide flogged. An old lady takes care and leads to night in an isolated house. It is presented to a beautiful woman: Cunegonde. She confirmed that she had been raped and disemboweled, and it is a miracle she is still alive: "we do not always die in these accidents." Cunegonde has become at once the mistress of Don Issachar, a Jewish banker and the Grand Inquisitor of Lisbon. Threatened by his rivals, "the gentle Candide", manages to kill them. Candide, Cunegonde and the old lady then fled towards Cadiz. They arrived at Cadiz when a boat about to leave Latin America. His crew is responsible to go and fight the rebellion against the reigning kings of Spain and Portugal. Candide manages to be hired. He embarked with Cunegonde, the old lady and two servants. During the crossing, the old lady tells her adventure. Daughter of a pope and a princess, she grew up "in beauty, grace, talent, amid pleasures, respect and expectations ..." Then she had a succession of terrible misfortunes: the poisoning of her boyfriend, the abduction of his mother, his sale to slave traders. She found herself trapped in a box, and then she became the slave of a ...