Essay Archive - Voltaire's Candide: "All is Not for the Best"
Voltaire's Candide: "All is Not for the Best"
Voltaire's Candide is the story of an innocent man's experiences in a
mad and evil world, his struggle to survive in that world, and his need to
ultimately come to terms with it. All people experience the turmoil of life
and must overcome obstacles, both natural and man-made, in order to eventually
achieve happiness. In life, "man must find a medium between what Martin
(scholar and companion to Candide) calls the "convulsions of anxiety" and the
"lethargy of boredom"" (Richter 137). After....
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