In Voltaire’s Candide or Optimism, satire takes a symbolic meaning. The result of placing the characters in miserable destinies, is moralizing, where the aim is to show the inconsistency of the principle that whatever is, is right. The presence of suffering in human life reincarnates the Epicurean paradox where god’s benevolence is questioned, when we confront the misfortunes that befall on us. Voltaire, using this weapon, countered the philosophies of his contemporaries, that of Alexander Pope’s and Gottfried Leibniz’s, and the latter’s philosophy appears in Candide arodied in the character Panglos, who at one side insists that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and on the other side, has the obscure reality which proves the opposite.
And with a touch of humor it shows the flaws of this consolatory philosophy.
Keywords: satire, parody, allegory, fable, paradox, idea
Issue Year: 2020
Issue No: 21
Page range: 69 – 74
Page count: 6
Language: Albanian
Interview:
Agron Tufa: Between writings and persecutions
Articles:
Artan Fuga: Miti si realitet dhe si gënjeshtër / The myth as a fact and fabrication
Dita Ethemi: Estetika e refuzimit / The Aesthetics of Rejection
Blerim Shala: Ëndrra e pafund e një udhe të pashkelur / The infinite dream of a road that not taken
Manjola Brahaj: Don’t give me a pain, I don’t want to give you a masterpiece / Mos ma jepni këtë dhimbje, nuk dua t’ju jap asnjë kryevepër
Ndriçim Hyseni: Dashuria si një iluzion i vullnetit / Love as an illusion of will
Anda Krasniqi: Alegoria e “Kandidit” / The Allegory of “Candide”
Abdulla Rexhepi: Përplasja e moraliteteve / The clash of moralities
Feride Papleka: Të fshehtat e treguara – një roman postmodern / “Told secrets” – a postmodern novel
Besnik Jaha: Funksionet e letërsisë / The functions of literature
ISSN (online): 2415-2749. ISSN (print): 2310-9998. Issue 19/2020. E-mail:
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