🇬🇧"Candide" is a philosophical satire written by Voltaire in 1759. The story follows Candide, a naive young man living in a castle and indoctrinated by his teacher Pangloss, who teaches him that we live in "the best of all possible worlds."
But when Candide is expelled from the castle, he begins a journey around the world filled with wars, natural disasters, torture, betrayal, slavery, earthquakes, and more. Along the way, he reunites with familiar figures, such as his beloved Cunegonde, and witnesses all kinds of tragedies and absurdities.
Despite everything he experiences, Pangloss continues to repeat his optimistic motto: "All things happen for the best." However, the journey transforms Candide's outlook and leads him to question that philosophy.
🇪🇸"Candide" es una sátira filosófica escrita por Voltaire en 1759. La historia sigue a Candide, un joven ingenuo que vive en un castillo y ha sido adoctrinado por su maestro Pangloss, quien le enseña que vivimos en "el mejor de los mundos posibles".
Pero cuando Candide es expulsado del castillo, comienza un viaje por el mundo lleno de guerras, desastres naturales, torturas, traiciones, esclavitud, terremotos y más. A lo largo del camino, se reencuentra con personajes conocidos, como su amada Cunegunda, y presencia todo tipo de tragedias y absurdos.
Pese a todo lo que vive, Pangloss sigue repitiendo su lema optimista: “todo pasa para bien”. Sin embargo, el viaje transforma la visión de Candide y lo lleva a cuestionar esa filosofía.
CHAPTER 1
How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baron of Thunder–ten–tronckh, lived a youth whom Nature had endowed with a most sweet disposition. His face was the true index of his mind. He had a solid judgment joined to the most unaffected simplicity; and hence, I presume, he had his name of Candide. The old servants of the
house suspected him to have been the son of the Baron’s sister, by a very good sort of a gentleman of the neighborhood, whom that young lady refused to marry, because he could produce no more than threescore and eleven quarterings in his arms; the rest of the genealogical tree belonging to the family having been lost through the injuries of time.
The Baron was one of the most powerful lords in Westphalia, for his castle had not only a gate, but even windows, and his great hall was hung with tapestry. He used to hunt with his mastiffs and spaniels instead of greyhounds; his groom served him for huntsman; and the parson of the parish officiated as his grand almoner. He was called “My Lord” by all his people, and he never told a story but everyone laughed at it.
My Lady Baroness, who weighed three hundred and fifty pounds, consequently was a person of no small consideration; and then she did the honors of the house with a dignity that commanded universal respect. Her daughter was about seventeen years of age, fresh–colored, comely, plump, and desirable. The Baron’s son seemed to be a youth in every respect worthy of the father he sprung from. Pangloss, the preceptor, was the oracle of the family, and little Candide listened to his instructions with all the simplicity natural to his age and disposition.
Master Pangloss taught the metaphysico–theologo–cosmolonigology.He could prove to admiration that there is no effect without a cause; and, that in this best of all possible worlds, the Baron’s castle was the most magnificent of all castles, and My Lady the best of all possible baronesses.
“It is demonstrable,” said he, “that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must
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