Candide

Throughout the story, many different things happen to Candide and Pangloss. Whenever bad things happen to them, such as when Candide finds his great teacher dying from some disease he caught from one of his lovers. Candide asks Pangloss if it was not a horrible thing that he was dying. Pangloss replies optimistically Throughout the story, many different things happen to Candide and Pangloss. Whenever bad things happen to them, such as when Candide finds …

…we shall be revenged, we shall have excellent cheer, let us eat the Jesuit, let us eat him up!'" (Pg. 39) Just because of the fact that Candide and Cacambo were of a different religion than them, the Oreillions were ready to murder and eat them. Voltaire is creating dramatic examples of how people of that time and world acted in extreme manners for dense reasons. He is showing how humorous these animals can be.