Comparing Hamlet And Candide's Philosophy
"Everything is made for an end; everything is necessarily for the best end (Voltaire 16)." This philosophical view that Pangloss, Candide's tutor, teaches Candide is a view that is discussed throughout the novel; a philosophy that wracks the mind of Candide until he knows this belief is one that cannot be true. Hamlet's fight with himself, in a battle between what is morally right and wrong and then his philosophical battle that takes place within him, shows the views of Shakespeare's time and how the philosophy of this time is what is holding back hamlet from committing suicide. Both of these writings are ones that philosophy is in the very fabric of one great criticism and a play that leads a man on a path of revenge and how to justify it. In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, and Candide, by Voltaire, the subject of philosophy is one that centers throughout both of the writings; one that is discussed with great detail and leads to
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Throughout the novel his belief that everything is for the best, taught to him by his friend Pangloss, is contradicted by the fact that everything that comes to pass in Candide's life is against what his mentor instructed him to believe. Candide has to think about what the world truly is with his mentor's philosophy and many people along his way having what Voltaire believes the true philosophy of the world is; such as there is no good in the world, which is a philosophy of Martin, a Manichean scholar(Maurois 6). Candide only discusses his philosophy in the very end without the influence of others which is that he believes that you must strive through life no matter what has been thrown your way which he says in response to Pangloss' repeated philosophical view "but we must cultivate our gardens(Voltaire 113)." His philosophical view is the final words of the novel show how Voltaire wrote this novel to convey his own feelings on the philosophy of the
Throughout the novel his belief that everything is for the best, taught to him by his friend Pangloss, is contradicted by the fact that everything that comes to pass in Candide's life is against what his mentor instructed him to believe. Candide has to think about what the world truly is with his mentor's philosophy and many people along his way having what Voltaire believes the true philosophy of the world is; such as there is no good in the world, which is a philosophy of Martin, a Manichean scholar(Maurois 6). Candide only discusses his philosophy in the very end without the influence of others which is that he believes that you must strive through life no matter what has been thrown your way which he says in response to Pangloss' repeated philosophical view "but we must cultivate our gardens(Voltaire 113)." His philosophical view is the final words of the novel show how Voltaire wrote this novel to convey his own feelings on the philosophy of the