 Book Review # 1 C A N D I D E b y : V O L T A I R E (FORMALISM ) Voltaire's CANDIDE is a story about a

man who was in search of true happiness and who was in a journey that proves that not all is for the best. He grew

up in castle of Westphalia , but was exiled when found kissing the baron's daughter. That was where his

misfortunes began,among them was when he was tortured during An army training, when his philosopher was

hanged in an autoda'fe,when he rescued his true love from the hands of the Inquisitor and the Jew ,when the

Anabaptist James and his friend died during the quakes in Lisbon ,and when he realized that a nation ,in order to be

happy, should be secluded from the rest of the world,despite of these... he still believed that there is a "cause and

effect" for everything!At this point,we would still find him struggling and fighting in hope that he and Cunegonde

would still be together.He started

able to come up with such marvelous characters that was able to contribute a great deal to Candide's journey.

with his teacher and was married to his true love Cunegonde.But he was not happy,he no longer loves her and he

again...there were so many characters involved but only few were really significant...It's quite dragging because

you have this feeling that you know what will happen next.Another bad point of this book is the ending part.The

say,"Everything was made for a purpose, all is necessary for the BEST purpose".The theme of this book is that no

climax was so high already,as a reader you will be looking for something, but instead it ends with a garden scene,it

one should be a victim...in life we know that there are struggles and obstacles that SHOULD be overcomed and

wasn't really needed at all. It travelled from places to places allowing the same things to happen again...and

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