Essay On Candide

I did fairly enjoy reading this week about Voltaire’s Candide, or Optimism. I could vividly picture what was happening with all of the twists and turns involved in the story. It was not until that I looked at the video the professor had about this reading that it was a spoof. It remained me of the spoof movies of Scary Movie with Wayans brothers. This story was just fair to crazy for it to be real and the character were naïve but I did enjoy the journey by all of the characters.
First in the story where they talked about the Baroness, who weighted in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pound, was greatly respected (p. 355). During this time it was a sign of wealthy to weigh this much but in 2017 that would be considered obese or unhealthy.
Cunegonde would escape along with her brother which that you would think she had it bad until you hear the story of the old woman. Also, I thought Candide was a punk and he had no heart until he found out what was going on with Cunegonde. Candide would become a savage that would kill the grand inquisitor and a Jew. This act showed me the growth of his character also cognitively he was still trying to figure out is if this would be what the great Pangloss would do. They would flee to Bueno Aires where she would marry the governor and Candide had no say so because of the people he killed.
The next little subplot I enjoyed was with Cacambo and Candide with how he also had Candide’s back. They would in a territory where they would find Cunegonde’s brother, the baron, who would still have this hate for him. I do not know why he would tell him that he still wanted to marry his sister. It was liked he was looking for approval but with all he went through in his journey to me he did not need it. The baron said he still was not worthy of his sister and that pissed off Candide impales him with his