Part one of term paper
What compels a man to think of today’s society with open eyes, and actually allow him to visualize change? Voltaire achieved this as he wrote Candide. In this novel Voltaire mocks the problems of his everyday surroundings by pointing them out in a way that is both humorous and to the point. He uses a main character (Candide) that represe ...

Part two of term paper
... in this novel as Candide. He is a character to whom everything happens without any active participation on his part. His naïve optimism lays him open to every imaginable disaster such as this incident, shown in chapter two: “With proper legal procedure he was asked which he would prefer, to be beaten thirty-six times by the whole regiment, or to receive twelve bullets in his brain.” That is just one of the many predicaments in which our main character becomes involved in. Another such in ...