Cultivating Our Garden By Voltaire's Candide: Optimism

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At the end of the novella Candide’s final statement is “We must cultivate our garden,” suggest people are responsible for their own happiness in life.”Garden” symbolizes one’s life and one’s happiness. While, “cultivate” symbolizes labor and one must work to in-order to have their happiness. The infamous satire Candide by Voltaire dispute Philosophical Optimism’s theory "Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.” Voltaire uses satire as a way to express his opinions about European society in the eighteenth century. A novella of young man named Candide as he goes through adventure and witness evil and cruelty. The main character Candide, is innocent by living in a world full of illusion.
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