Candide

Book Review – Candide By: Voltaire In the book Candide the author Voltaire presents his ideas on life and the world through a satirical story. The main character Candide, is used to show his views through the different experiences and events that happen to Candide throughout the book. In his satire Voltaire seems to emphasize through Candide’s adventures that in the world there is no such thing as reason and order to govern it. Candide …

…Is it possible to have a perfect world? Is it possible to have a world without greediness, injustices, brutality, crooked religious institutions, war and other human frailties? For Voltaire the answer appears not to be possible at all, and that is reflected in Candide’s lost hope in the existence of a perfect and utopian world. Candide in the end appears to have loss optimism in a world that is surrounded by hopelessness and suffering.