Candide And Hamlet
"Everything is made for an end; everything is necessarily for the best end (Voltaire 16)." This philosophical view that Pangloss, Candide's tutor, teaches Candide is a view that is discussed throughout the novel; a philosophy that wracks the mind of Candide until he knows this belief is one that cannot be true. Hamlet's fight with himself, in a battle between what is morally right and wrong and then his philosophical battle that takes place within him, shows the views of Shakespeare's time and how the philosophy of this time is what is holding back hamlet from committing suicide. Both of these writings are ones that philosophy is in the very fabric of one great criticism and a play that leads a man on a path of revenge and how to justify it. In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, and Candide, by Voltaire, the subject of philosophy is one that centers throughout both of the writings; one that is discussed with great detail and leads to the conclusion of each.
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