How Does Candide Represent The 7 Deadly Sins

In Candide, Voltaire depicts that every man’s goal is to find happiness and they often confuse happiness with money and lust which are considered seven deadly sins. Voltaire represents many characters that commit the seven deadly sins and for which they have to suffer for. People in the world are not happy with what they have and they desire more, which leads them to face consequences. Most characters commit some kind of sin in order to find happiness. In Candide many characters have to face the consequence for their misdeeds , which shapes Candide to be the person he is and Voltaire also alludes to the garden of eden that Candide is searching for. Voltaire creates an allusion to the story of adam and eve in his satirical novel for he expresses

In the beginning of the book, Candide has everything, “a castle that had a gate and a window” (Voltaire 3), world’s greatest philosopher as his tutor, Dr. Pangloss (4), and seeing miss Cunegonde everyday (4). He considered himself living in a paradise because he has not tasted the fruit of knowledge yet. Voltaire presents that our lust could result in harsh consequences like Candide had to face when he kissed Cunegonde (5). His expulsion alludes to the garden of eden where Adam and Eve lived happily until they were banished for making a mistake just as Candide is banished for his mistake. Candide experiences the reality of the world after his expulsion like Adam and Eve did after eating the fruit of knowledge. After being kicked out of the castle, Candide meets Buglars who are sent out by their master to destroy villages, steal all their money, rape women, and kill people. Voltaire describes the scene so vividly to convey the audience of his disgust against the war. The Bulgars and Abars attack

The evil pirates blinded by greed performed atrocious acts that causes one to think no humanity exists in the world. People do not work hard to earn money, rather they like to steal other people’s money. The lack of money motivates one to focus on only achieving more, but it's never enough to quench their desire. Even after looting hundreds, and thousands of people, these pirates did not stop from their actions. Certain pirates performed these awful acts for they were not nurtured properly or influenced negatively by others as Candide had been by the Bulgars.. However, the orator who has the knowledge of right and wrong is also disrespecting people. The orator does not give charity to Candide when he does not answer his question, instead his wife dumps the chamber full of human waste (9). This discourteous act portrays that religious people only helped the needy if they support them. Otherwise, they do not respect them at all. The orator is more concerned of changing the men views to follow his religious views to gain power than the helping needy people. Religion is to show us the right path when we are in challenging situations, but for the priest religion is a medium of gaining power. They do not want others to have the freedom of speech because it will hinder their power. Like when Dr. Pangloss stated his opinion (16), the inquisition is determined