CKQ+Hyeunjin

= Why is this not the best of all possible worlds? = Requirements:
 * 3-5 examples
 * your examples should include evidence that demonstrates why this is not the best of all possible worlds
 * remember to look for 'rays of hope'
 * as in the example above, quote your evidence and explain how it answers the key question
 * As you post your responses to the key question also mention 'rays of hope' that you see in the novel.

Example #1 ->not the best of all possible worlds

page 70(chatper 24)

When Candide arrives at Venice he says “ ‘ I have had time to cross from surinam to Bordeaux, travel from Bordeaux to Paris, from Paris to Dieppe, from Dieppe to Portsmouth;then to coast the length of Portugal and Spain, cross the entire Mediterranean, and spend several months in Venice and the lovely Cunegonde has still not arrived?” This shows that this is not the best of all possible worlds because sometimes people face a point when they have a goal (meeting Cunegonde for candide) but the goal fails as not being able to succeed that goal they have ( not being able to meet Cunegonde even after coming all the way to Venice) .It is highly possible that an event occurs to a person, in a way that the person does not want.

Example #2 ->not the best of all possible worlds

page73(chapter 24)

In the conversation between Candide and Paquette, Paquette says to Candide “ ‘Ah! Monsieur,’ replied Paquette, ‘that is another of the miseries of our profession. Yesterday I was between and robbed by and officer of the law; today I must seem in good humor to please a monk. This shows that this is not the best of all possible worlds because at certain points human beings are made to do certain jobs unwillingly. Paquette as an instance, she has to treat the monk in good manner when she was treated horribly the day before by an officer of the law. People sometimes have to do certain things that they really do not want to do in order to survive.

Example #3 ->not the best of all possible worlds

page 79(chapter 25)

On the ship Cacambo tells Candide “ ‘My dear master.’ replied Cacambo, ‘Cunegonde is washing dishes on the shores of the propontide for a prince who owns very few dishes-she is a slave in the household of a deposed sovereign called Ragotski, to whom in his exile the Grand Sultan pays an allowance of three ecus a day; but what is far worse is that she has lost her beauty and become fearfully ugly.’ This shows that this is not the best of all possible worlds because there is a fate that people can’t avoid no matter how good or bad the fate is. Just like the pretty Cunegonde, who turned into a dishwasher(a slave of Ragotski). People can;t make their own decision of what life they want to live, a wealthy or a poor.

Example #4

page 79 (chapter 26)--->rays of hope

Cacambo tells Cunegonde "Cunegonde is not here,'said Cacambo, 'she is in Constantinople.'-and Candide replies " 'Constantinople! Of all places ! But even where she in China, I would fly to her; let us leave now !" This shows that there is a raise of hope for Candide, a hope to find Cunegonde. Since, all Candide care about it to find Cunegonde, he does not really care where is should go to find Cunegonde, he can even go all the way to China just to find his love. Therefore, this news from Cacambo is very hopeful, because this time he might actually be able to find her.