Candide by Voltaire (Summary and Review) - Minute Book Report
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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This is a story about the adventures of a man named Candide who grows up in the German castle of Westphalia. He is sensible and bright, taking to the philosophy of Pangloss, a philosopher who believes that all things happen for good.
Candide gets run out of Westphalia by the Baron after expressing a romantic interest the beautiful Cunegonde, the Baron's daughter. Still, Candide is determined to reunite with her some day.
After joining the Bulgarian army, Candide again runs, but meets Pangloss, who is disfigured and sickly. Pangloss tells Candide that Westphalia was attacked and that everyone died. The two of them travel to Portugal with the aid of a friendly man, who dies in a terrible storm at sea.
After surviving an earthquake, Candide and Pangloss are convicted and each sentenced: Candide to be whipped and shot, Pangloss to be hanged. Pangloss is hanged, but Candide is saved by an old woman, who heals his wounds.
The old woman takes Candide to Cunegonde, who survived the attack on Westphalia, and explains how she is now the property of two other men.
Candide slays the two men who own Cunegonde and he takes her and the old woman to the New World to escape persecution. As they are sailing, the old woman shares her own journey from princess to slave.
When they arrive in the New World, the local governor sees Cunegonde and wants to marry her. But before Candide can protest, he sees a ship arrive whose intentions are to arrest him for the slayings.
Candide leaves with a local guide, Cacambo, and they find refuge in a nearby settlement. There, Candide discovers that Cunegonde's brother is a commanding officer, having also survived the attack on Westphalia. However, the men fight and Candide stabs Cunegonde's brother before fleeing.
Candide and Cacambo then find a city of gold, El Dorado. Although the city is full of riches, the people live in peace and harmony. Candide and Cacambo enjoy their time in the city, but decide to take some of the riches with them to buy back Cunegonde. However, on their trip back, they lose most of their gold-carrying sheep and are forced to leave the riches behind.
Candide decides to split off from Cacambo, instructing him to take most of the gold, buy Cunegonde, and meet him in Venice.
After his gold is stolen by a Dutch sea captain, Candide decides to travel to France with Martin, a philosophical man who believes the worst in mankind.
In France, Candide and Martin run into Cacambo, who is now a slave to a former sultan. Cacambo tells them that Cunegonde is a slave in Constantinople and has grown ugly. Still, Candide is determined to see her.
As they are sailing to Constantinople, the group discovers that Cunegonde's brother and Pangloss are rowing the boat.
They land in Constantinople and Candide sees Cunegonde, ugly and beaten, and the old woman. He buys them, still wanting to marry Cunegonde.
In the end, Candide buys a small Turkish farm with the rest of his money and they all live on the farm together.
Initially, readers should be able to identify the author's use of satire as social commentary on money, relationships, slavery, and the evilness in people. Yet the strongest satire is saved for religious commentary. In the story, religious figures are often portrayed as hypocrites who display acts of lust, greed, and selfishness.
This story also portrays the incomplete story. Often, readers are led to believe that characters have died, but in fact, those characters survive and return by the end. This demonstrates the survivability of humans as organisms, but also an exciting literary device: the limited narrator. What this does is limit the reader's knowledge of the world and create new surprises that the reader and main protagonist share together.
Through all of Candide's misadventures, his belief that everything works for good acts as a strong constant. This philosophy, in a way, is mocked by the author as Candide takes it to extremes in some cases.
This ultimately leads to the conclusion of the story where Candide realizes that, in the end, it doesn't really matter whether events, good or bad, work out. Ultimately, we, as humans, are meant to work and experience, not to think or judge whether our experiences are for the benefit of ourselves and those around us.
Through Minute Book Reports, hopefully you can get the plot and a few relevant discussion points in just a couple of minutes.
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Great summary. However, I highly recommend actually reading the book, those of you in the comments saying you will now ace the test, presumably because you didn't actually read it. There's plenty of witty humor to enjoy. A great example is this passage early in the book:
_One day, as Cunegonde was taking a stroll near the castle in the little wood they referred to as their 'parkland', she caught a glimpse through the bushes of Dr Pangloss giving a lesson in applied physiology to her mother's maid, a very pretty and very receptive little brunette. As Miss Cunegonde had quite a gift for science, she noted in breathless silence the repeated experiments to which she was witness. She saw clearly the doctor's sufficient reason, the effects and the causes, and returned home all agitated, her thoughts provoked, and filled with desire to be a scientist, musing that she might well be able to be young Candide's sufficient reason, just as he could well be hers._
SpecialJ11 totally right. Its not even long. Watch this after you read the book to reinforce what you read.
that's exactly what I did :)
SpecialJ11 I like the part where he passed out
why do i feel like this is missing alot of info like the Nun who cut off each other asses and ate them bc of how god is amazing and he would stop the nun
lol so they were having adult time
1:45 The sheep should be red.
and actually Llamas hahaha
Listening to this is kind of like hearing Dwight describe the perfect crime.
LMAO perfect way to describe it
This was perfect, exactly what I needed and made things so much clearer, thank you!
Love this! This was so helpful and visually appealing! Definitely prepared for my quiz tomorrow!
I wish more people knew this book and how hilarious it is
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As a fellow youtuber who creates animated book review videos, I just wanted to say that this video is superb! Well done.
+ObtainEudaimonia Thanks. Checked out your channel. Pretty cool stuff.
+Minute Book Reports Thank you, keep up the good work yourself!
Candide is pronounced as "can-DEEED"
Yeaa ..Can - deeeed...this the actual pronounciation
I'm skipping this video because I can't stand his pronunciation.
Amazing summary! Thanks you really saved my ass for my test.
+Tactivekiller owns Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the video. :)
Logan blink :D
Yeah man blink 182 is my soul!
I'm gonna ace this test thanks man
You've done a great service to me and these other people. I have a quiz on this today.
this made me understand the book - especially because i had to read it in French. thank you so much !
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
loved it,we so badly need more channels like this. hope to see more. subscribed
Thank you. Glad you found this video helpful.
So wish the music was softer and you took 2 minutes and spoke slower. Other than that - enjoyed it.
Yeah the music is too loud i had to use subtitles
I have a test on it tmr and this helpped me a lot THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY LIFE
I think you misinterpret Voltaire's conclusion. He never suggests that we shouldn't, as you say, "think and judge whether our experiences are for the benefit of ourselves or those around us."
So what do you think Voltaire's conclusion is to this story?
+Minute Book Reports Haven't read it, but from what I've been told, it sounds like a leap to me too. Pretty sure the conclusion is that we don't live in 'the best of all possible worlds' and that things rarely happen for a reason.
+Minute Book Reports the whole story is a satire mocking the notion of theodicy. Not sure how you do a whole video and don't mention theodicy (that this is the best of all possible worlds and that if God could have created a better world, he would have)! The whole work is responding to Rousseau's theodicy that this IS the best of all possible worlds. Voltaire is essentially telling him to "shut up," because he doesn't know. This all relates to the earthquake at Lisbon and the reaction from other thinkers of this time period (and also Epicurus's "problem of evil"). Candide saying "tis is true, but we must cultivate our gardens" shows that his perspective has changed. Heck, even Pangloss's perspective has changed. Come on man...the story doesn't really matter here. It's all about the underlying philosophical tenets presented by Voltaire!
this conversation happened when I was 7th grade.... I'm graduating high school this year
my left ear enjoyed this
The story is interesting but the book is so hard to read and I have to do a report on it in 3 weeks
Saved my GPA right there thank you! Please keep doing these. Your the hero people want but don't diserve.
Thanks for the entertaining video! I read this book about 10 years ago back in high school. I really liked it back then, but had forgotten most of what happened.
really good summary!!
Thanks.
Thanks for making the video! Also I don't think evilness is a word.
Very nice presentation ☺
thank you so so so much you’re a lifesaver
I always like to watch a summary after reading a book so I can fully comprehend what I just read. Thank you.
Y'all watching this video to face a test I'm watching it to convince my dad who wants me to read books believe im actually reading this book that he recommended. (I read but only nonfiction, my dad is trying to get me to read fiction)
Cunegonde drops her handkerchief and then her eyes meets Candide's after he picks it up for her. And then she kisses him.
Best summary yet. Kudos!
This was absolutely fantastic
thanks so much! i liked the simple animation too
The red sheep are lamas in the book,i didn't understand it at first either.
One of the best tales ever
It’s not pronounced candid. It’s pronounced Candeed. It’s like if I read the lord of the rings and called Frodo, Fredo instead. You would want murder me and I would agree.
This was simply amazing! Loved it:)
Great video, thank you
Thank you for this video
Great video! Thx a lot
After Candide, what’s the next good Voltaire book to read?
My left ear liked this video
The music is way too loud.
Good. But the music disturbes a lot and I cannot hear your voice clearly
LOVE IT!
Had to stop listening less than 30 seconds in due to your pronunciation of Candide.
you just saved my ass, thank you
what drawing program do you use?
Awesome
Had to play this on .5x speed
A good summary
Can't hear what you are saying because the mudic is too LOUD!
The background music is too loud/annoying and disturbs from the videos message/report !
It saved my life :33
voice in the center of stereo image would be nicer.
lowkey watching this for fun
Omg i cant keep up u talk soooo fast :(
shut the music!!!!
Y the hell is music so loud.. words are not clear ... I am so irritated
I'm pretty sure Candide met cacambo in Venice after meeting the six kings but otherwise good summary.
Please turn off the music and speak like you mean it!
Lower the music and speak at a slower pace. 🤨
I came here to learn how to pronounce candide
It's Can-DEED
I could totally kiss you . thanks man, you saved my ass
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Why the music, why? Do you really think it adds something to your book review? What is it recently with not just yourself, feeling the irresistible urge to squeeze as much of audio into their vlogs. You do not by any chance carry a radio with you that you switch on, each time you hold a conversation with someone?
The church and Politicains, went to great effort to stop this book from bring shared. Freedom of speech and literature, wasn't always a thing, and isn't in places like China.
I fucking hate literature, thanks for this!
pronounced '' kon deed''
a story for kids .... simple minded
Lol, poor Candide had to run from the American governor after the popo arrived in search of him from across the sea.
Piano is annoying. Off
I am not really sure how this video received so many likes in proportion to dislikes. Having read the book, you skipped out on many key details like Pangloss receiving Syphillis from a prostitute that worked under Candide back at the castle or how discriminatory Voltaire was to Jews. Overall not a good summary and would not help for a high school test.
Also your music sucks.
If your disseminating info, why in the world are you distracting the audiences with the annoying music ?
Turn it off or at least turn it wwwwwwaaaayyyyy down.
Went way too fast
MrMvpbaseball2005 The point of it is to be fast. Watch it a couple of times, and you'll get it.
Terrible review you make this look like it's not a comedy
Awesome