The Garden State

The Garden state can be taken literally or not. For me I take it literally, because if we put the entire book, Candide into the metaphor, it would make more sense especially when it comes to the point of the Utopian society. The utopian society would be the perfect garden; more like a plastic one, its perfect it’s the one everyone wants but don’t want to work on. A Garden takes time, patience, and knowledge in order to be able to grow something beautiful. The world id like a Garden the only way we can make it better, is not in believing that it would automatically water its self and cultivate itself, we have to put the effort in in order to get what we hope for. "The garden should be cultivated" can be taken to mean or imply many things; perhaps most applicably in relation to that tale, that the garden of thoughts or ideas one should cultivate sense and weed out nonsense, or that in the garden of the world, one must weed out the vile for the desirable to flourish and survive, but arguments could be made for other meanings and implications. Our “garden” is the better place we build by love. The force of that last line, “We must cultivate our garden,” is that it’s our responsibility to be learned and educated.