In the novel Candide written by Voltaire, one of the main motifs is the garden. It has been mentioned multiple times throughout the book. The first garden was the Castle of baron Thunder-Ten- Tronckh, there is the garden of Eldorado, and Candide's final garden. As a main motif, the garden symbolizes people's lives and how they must nurture them to have a good outcome. The garden is used cleverly throughout the novel to convey an optimistic moral about the importance of gardens' cultivation that determines the life and fate of the characters. It underscores that the only worthwhile thing for people to do is to cultivate their gardens. While cultivating gardens are an emblem of hero’s prospect and fortune, neglected ones lead to his misery. Voltaire provides in Candide several types of gardens. A garden that someone can be kicked out of it like what happened to Candide in baron Thunder-ten- tronckh, another garden that someone can foolishly leave as Candide did Eldorado, and a final well taken care of garden that makes human being close to happiness.
The castle of the Baron of Thunder-ten- tronckh is the first garden that Candide passes through. It is a real utopia, a dream of
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The author, Voltaire, used this garden to show a biblical allusion to the garden of Eden. At the end of story, Candide gets a garden and cultivates it based on a recommendation of a Turkish Muslim which is ironic. The irony is that the initial garden was an allusion to Eden and the fall from grace while the final garden is still Eden but from the Muslim point of view. The castle is one of the most significant gardens because Voltaire portrayed it as the ultimate utopia that Candide gets kicked out of. Voltaire’s style and technique is shown when he starts with the fall from grace then end up in a garden like Eden is significant because it helps shape meaning for the reader in the