Voltaires Candide: The Transformation of Candide Essay -- Voltaire Ca

Voltaires Candide The Transformation of CandideCandide (1991), which is another version of Voltaire by French writer Francois-Marie Arouet, is a short but diverse history that tells of a young mans journey for love and the hardships he faces all the while keeping a very strong, positive and philosophical outlook on life. The handwriting starts in an unknown year, hinted sometime around the Renaissance, with a young man named Candide. Candide loves the princess of a Baron and is banished from the land because of it. Wanting so much to be with his love, he starts his travels to find some way that he can be with her. Right from the start Candide falls into trouble. From being forced to join an army, to seeing and loosing his love again, to peachy riches and to the lowest pit of poor Candide is able to overcome adversary and conquer the odds. In this amazing journey he finds that every showcase in the world has a reason, and whether there are positive or negative moments you get to live them.At the beginning, the reader finds out about Candides misfortunate event that leads him on his journeys. His being taught, by Pangaloss, of philosophical ways of life leads him to long for his beloved. This longing is the official start of his journey to marry the beautiful Cunegonde.Candid finds himself at the first of his woes when he enters a tavern in the town of Waldberghofftrarbk-dikdorff. He is coaxed into going to a populate by mean of a meal. In the camp he is captured and forced to fight for the Bulgarian army. He attempts to escape but is caught and is forced to run the gauntlet. He then tries escaping again in the heat of appointment and succeeds.After being taken in and helped by James, an anabaptist, he runs into h... ...on if you had not walked over America if you had not Stabbed the Baron If you had not lost all of your sheep from the exquisite country of El Dorado you would not be here eating preserved citrons and pistachio-nuts (87). This last quote b y Pangaloss is the end of Candides journey. This is where Candide finally realizes that the events in the world have reasons behind them.Candide realizes, through the teachings of Pangaloss and his journeys, that no one can change what has happened or what might happen in the near future. The only thing that can be done is to take life as it is dealt and play the hand you got. This is a major change for Candide philosophical thoughts of events from beginning to end. Candide can now make the bast out of events that may not favor him in the future.Works CitedVoltaire. Candide. Dover Publications, Inc. New York, 1991