Candide
(Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Voltaire's Candide is a short philosophic novella, a creation typical for the Age of Enlightenment. Its main objective is to present a specific philosophic point of view or polemics with philosophy of another author. In his work Voltaire ridicules and uncovers Leibnitz's philosophy, according to which we live in the best possible world there could be. The book's narration is quite an easy and undeveloped one, but Voltaire used such a method on purpose, all because of the enlightenment trend of making novels short, with one plot and easy to understand. The main charachter is a young man named Candide, who because of war leaves his family sides and begins to travel across the world. During his journey he realizes that the philosophy of optimism, represented by his teacher - dr. Pangloss - is highly wrong. Candide grows ripe and gets to know the world, throwing away the philosophy of optimism. Shortly before the book ends he puts in words a statement, being also a message of the novel: You have to garden your own field! Candide is also a very dynamic work. A journey motive is being used in it, a motive that accompanies a human race from the very beginning and the description of the world contained reminds of modern behaviorism. Although this book has well over 200 years it still smells with freshness.
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