CANDIDE – VOLTAIRE
General Thoughts & Comments:

I really enjoy Candide, because it teaches me a lot. This novel shows me a set of misfortunes for all characters. I feel a little unpeaceful when I watching this reading. At the beginning of the novel, it’s such as a romantic story. However, after Candide and Cunégonde share an “innocent kiss”. The nightmare is coming, Cunégond’s father sees their kiss and banishes Candide from his house. “Cunégond was killed soldiers” Candide heard from Dr. Pangloss. Later, he reunited with Cunégond and she is survived from murder, it sound like fortunes is going to start. However, he also knows that Cunégond is a servant and mistress to two men. It is like a roller coaster ride, it goes from happy, disappoint, happy, disappoint. You never know what will be happen, it is unpredictable.

It reminds me that about the human life, even your or my life won’t be always successful, you will going to meet some troubles in your life, you can’t just avoid or ignore, they are still there. Just like Candide, even his life is misfortune, life must going on and he also tries to help each character in the novel. If you don’t give up, fortunes will goes to you.

At the end of the novel, he marries Cunégond and they buy a small farm. It tells me that success will come over after work hard for a long period of time. There is a big difference between this idea and Candide’s initial idea, which he believes that wealth would just come to him because he deserve it. I think that it is really important to our life, it’s telling people that don’t just sit somewhere and waiting for chance, but chance is waiting for you.