Read from December 09 to 13, 2012
While reading this book, I discovered that Voltaire has
described every real first-time one would encounter in the journey of
one's life, for Candide has been living in "the best of all castles" and
never knew what hardships are about. So after he was chased out of the
famous castle, because he was unlucky enough to fall in love for the
very first time with a woman, who was the daughter of the baron of the
castle, Voltaire described the first time that Candide killed, got beaten, was rescued, visited a new country, became rich, was ill, etc...
But what struck me is that he never uttered a word about his feelings
while enduring what he had to endure, or enjoying what he had to enjoy.
Candide was always kind of "indifferent" towards these things, the only
thing he did was trying to see how far Pangloss' theory contradicted or
agreed with his situation (Pangloss' theory is simply about "optimism",
and how one should endure every hardship for the sake of the best that
is to come, though I didn't agree with his "optimism"), and the farther
he went through his journey the more he became convinced about the
silliness of this theory, until he discovered at last that one should
only work in this life and stop being philosophic about things if one
want to live a calm life, and every time they were tempted by a
metaphysical discussion they would say: "let's just cultivate our
garden". So it was a short yet good book, and I liked it..
HAPPY READING DEAR READERS!!
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