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No. 5 of the Candide Prompts direct the discussion of the novel to the opinions in the secondary resources. This time, the prompt assigns the secondary resource to be the article written by Julian Barnes, an English writer, “A Candid View of Candide” for The Guardian. The prompt requires to identify the main arguments of Barnes’s article and then specify three to four reasons on whether to agree or disagree with the arguments.
The reason I choose this prompt is that secondary resources, such as critical essays or articles, provide an insight into the literary works. Different people have different backgrounds, which gear them with different perspectives. Such perspectives can offer an insight into the literary works in question as is often said “there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes.” As far as Candide is concerned, “Candide is about the pursuit of happiness” (16) in the opinion of the editors of the Bedford Series in History and Culture Project while Julian Barnes views Candide as “a report” that can still be used to describe the current world. (“A Candid View of Candide” para. 2). The insight helps to develop critical thinking and look into an issue from a different perspective. That is why I choose the fifth prompt.
In the paper, I want to discuss Voltaire’s satire and the realistic world. Barnes says in the article that the words of Voltaire is of reference meaning even today (para. 6) Three centuries have gone to the time of today. The classics written in that time are still inspiring. It is still possible to find the proper prototypes of the characters that can match the figures being satirized. Therefore, I want to discuss the function of Voltaire’s satire in the realistic world and what can be learned from the satire. The thesis statement of the paper I am about to present is: although the time Voltaire lived in is different from what is like today, the figures being satirized in the novel, Candide, can still serve as a lesson to reflect the negative human nature and it is still of reference meaning to the practical world.
Topic sentence: Voltaire’s satire deeply reflect the depravity of the human nature, such as brutality. In Chapter 3 of Candide, Voltaire describes the cruelty of war and the ordeal the war brings to the local people:
There several young virgins, whose bodies had been ripped open, after they had satisfied the natural necessities of the Bulgarian heroes, breathed their last; while others, half-burned in the flames, begged to be dispatched out of the world. The ground about them was covered with the brains, arms, and legs of dead men (Voltaire 6).
Works Cited
Barnes, Julian. “A Candid View of Candide.” The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.
com/books/2011/jul/01/candide-voltaire-rereading-julian-barnes. Accessed 1 May 2017.
Voltaire. Candide. Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project, 1998.
Voltaire. Candide by Voltaire, with related documents. Edited by Daniel Gordon, Bedford / St Martins, 2016.