my teacher wanted us to read this book in french (im not french - in fact, i barely know how to count to ten in french) and do a test on it, so, naturally, i just watch english summaries on it and hope for the best. thanks so much for this video!!!!
@@misspyro4618 this covers the bullet points of events but not in context of the themes, it would be like summarizing Atlas Shrugged without also covering objectivism. Candide is a deeply satirical book meant to demonstrate the folly in the blindly optimistic "everything happens for a reason" style schools of theology and philosophy. Assuming natural disasters, pointless war, disease, and any manor of arbitrary suffering is a test of character or necessary for a greater good is equivalent to the broken window fallacy and instead a lifestyle built around "cultivating one's garden leads to a more successful and productive life.
This book was the likely inspiration for Forest Gump, The philosophy of "laissez faire", everything happens for a reason and it is best to go with the flow as our lives are programmed at birth. You do not insist on Voltaire love for satire, his description of the world, particularly the "rich and famous" is eerily contemporary, greed, superficiality, backstabbing, envy. Voltaire depicts with remarkable accuracy and sharp criticism the "so called" powerful people who live in a fabricated reality, where appearances are the only things that matter....Cultivate your own garden !
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It was raining so his sentence of getting burned was impossible, so they decided to hang him, but the executioner are only used to burn people so basically he is incompetent at making hanging ropes so Pangloss survived.
Wait... If candide through tragedy came to the realization that philosophical optimism is false Wouldn't that paradoxically mean that everything does work out for the best... Because if he never went through terrible circumstances he would of never come to that realization 😂
by the time he does, he has endured an undue amount of suffering and is trapped in an unhappy marriage of obligation. It may have worked out best for the reader, but for Candide and most everyone around him its far too late to make use of that wisdom.
This man is an American hero. Every single book I read this man has already gone over
lmaooooo
This book was so fun. It's like 150 pages or less and is such a fast paced and fun romp through the philosophy of life. Awesome stuff
shut up its boring as ....
@@emzon4714 i mean fun is subjective :-) i thought it was great !!
@@emzon4714 right!? I mean it really was supper boring i have it in classe tomorrow as an exam we read it in French 😴😒
@@btsarmyforever2048 bien fait
I thought it to be a wonderful romp. A real breath of fresh air. So witty
my teacher wanted us to read this book in french (im not french - in fact, i barely know how to count to ten in french) and do a test on it, so, naturally, i just watch english summaries on it and hope for the best. thanks so much for this video!!!!
Are you Moroccan or Algerian?
@@abdessamad6814 im dutch actually! we have french at our schools :)
@@aanne1670 how did it go 🤦🏾😂
@@clevergirl6041well im graduated now so im assuming it went well hahahah
Thank you so much! Really helped me understand and grasp the book and its meaning
Two minutes in, and I'm lost.
Broo i thought i was the only one
@@misspyro4618 ong
@@misspyro4618 this covers the bullet points of events but not in context of the themes, it would be like summarizing Atlas Shrugged without also covering objectivism.
Candide is a deeply satirical book meant to demonstrate the folly in the blindly optimistic "everything happens for a reason" style schools of theology and philosophy. Assuming natural disasters, pointless war, disease, and any manor of arbitrary suffering is a test of character or necessary for a greater good is equivalent to the broken window fallacy and instead a lifestyle built around "cultivating one's garden leads to a more successful and productive life.
Thank you for this, now I'm fully prepared for my test tomorrow!
This book was the likely inspiration for Forest Gump, The philosophy of "laissez faire", everything happens for a reason and it is best to go with the flow as our lives are programmed at birth. You do not insist on Voltaire love for satire, his description of the world, particularly the "rich and famous" is eerily contemporary, greed, superficiality, backstabbing, envy. Voltaire depicts with remarkable accuracy and sharp criticism the "so called" powerful people who live in a fabricated reality, where appearances are the only things that matter....Cultivate your own garden !
This video was awesome!
I’m tryna pass AP lit ☹️
Reey27 me too bruhh :(
Hope your teacher is better than mine. Best of luck
amazing interpretation
for such a short book that initial summary sure left alot out
Thanks
Thank you mate! Saved me😂
What's the background song called
Teacher- How the hell did you complete the entire summer reading book and write an entire two page essay over night?!
Me- Uhhhhh…. skim reading
Namaste 🙏 ..!! i am from INDIA 🇮🇳 SIR YOUR VIDEOS IS HELP ME SO SO MUCH SIR PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON
I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU.
THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK. THE HOLLOW MEN.
Bruh i get a week to do a paper on this and 3 other topics for English during lockdown.
What a wild romp, testing your own preconceived notion’s against the torrent of our ugly world's never ending sore situations.
Build your own castle🧐
I love you
Clockwork angels
How is pangloss alive?
Voltaire decided later on that he still wanted pangloss to still be a part of the story after pangloss got hung i guess
It was raining so his sentence of getting burned was impossible, so they decided to hang him, but the executioner are only used to burn people so basically he is incompetent at making hanging ropes so Pangloss survived.
Because EVERYTHING DOES WORK OUT FOR THE BEST!
take that candide, ya little turd!
my teacher really sent me this video
Wait... If candide through tragedy came to the realization that philosophical optimism is false
Wouldn't that paradoxically mean that everything does work out for the best... Because if he never went through terrible circumstances he would of never come to that realization 😂
by the time he does, he has endured an undue amount of suffering and is trapped in an unhappy marriage of obligation. It may have worked out best for the reader, but for Candide and most everyone around him its far too late to make use of that wisdom.
Pangloss says more or less the same by the end of the book.
I cringed every time the speaker mispronounced the name of the central character. Philistine.
Hating this dude’s voice. Way too chipper
Thank you so much youre a life saver