Gabrielle Rovegno
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City of Anywhere
Planet Earth
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Candide: Ahhh see he will change into a cruel being not the innocent person Pangloss had him be. He is no longer naive now that he has seen the horrors and there is a change in character. When people go through something traumatic they either reject or embrace their faith. Candide is rejecting this, no doubt now his new way of looking at the world will be how voltaire sees things.
Candide
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
What God Wishes: In the Ken Burns documentary on the civil war one person said that both sides were praying to the same God and only one side would be victorious. Most war is about religion and what god wants anyway, but if Candide is living in a world where this is just God's will and the war is the best war ever because god created it that makes absolutely no sense. There is no God war and a god's war is even worse. Voltaire uses such extreme examples of the world coming to an end and all the awful things that happened to Cunegonde to show that God is not a reasonable explanation for these bad things it is a cop out answer.
Candide
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Liberty: Are you kidding? Liberty is probably one of the last things preserved when in the state of nature. We all want to be free and desire to be equals, like socialism but look how anytime that has been tried on a huge stage it has only led to the constricting of liberty. People want power and desire to know they are in control and not threatened which means restricting other people's liberty.
Candide
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Mans Innocence: Like the song Too Many Puppies and the Book Lord of the Flies. We are all naive little english boys but war and survival and everything turns us ruthless. I wonder if Candide will become like that if he refutes this is the best of possible worlds. Maybe he will see what an awful world it is and change from his kind sensitive ways.
Candide
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Voltaire and War: Again why war is pointless they are just avenging the other side, and it is just a race of who can destroy faster and with more deaths,.
Candide
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Best of the World: again the "best in this world" thing is just a source of comfort when the going gets tough
Candide
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Voltaire and War: Voltaire really despises war. He makes a comment - "All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." We create celebrations and festivities to cloud the horrors of war like Victory in Japan Day or how people would sit out and watch the Civil War, the point of war is to see who can kill the most, most systematically, and who's society can last longest under these depleted resources. That isn't really test of how strong you are. To see that one would have to build not destory
Candide
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Free Will: He is not really being given free will right here. They are giving him the illusion of that because they are giving him a choice of how he will choose to die, yet in the end they plan on killing him anyway. Besides if he plans on exercising free will wouldn't that contradict the whole cause and effect thing again, because if true we are bound by an already established code of what we are supposed to do. This isn't free will he is doing something all part of a chain of cause and effect
Candide
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
God: Candide finds comfort in looking to the heavens because it ties into the whole cause and effect thing. Just as it is believed God may have a special purpose and plan for a person the cause and effect idea is to stress that this was supposed to happen and a greater being has trust in you and knows you can handle it because they said so.
Candide
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Cause and Effect: I think if one is going to use cause and effect for an explanation it has to be related to reason and rationalization. This action was something purely out of impulse and feeling. Even morality usually does not extend to "id-like" or impulse behaviors and I don't think cause and effect can either.
Candide
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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