Where Will Candide End Up?

As I had mentioned in my earlier blogs everything that happens in “Candide” is so unexpected!  I am really enjoying this book because it is not like everything that I have read in the past, things happen out of nowhere and Voltaire writes them as if they were the most normal things in the world. For example, “We’ll have Jesuit for dinner.” That was said by the Oreillons and it didn’t have much emphasis when it was said. It is as if everything that had great importance in the book wasn’t highlighted and that is what makes it even more interesting.

 

Voltaire uses satire to its maximum and beyond, everything that happens is absurd. The sheep’s of poor Candide were stolen but out of the blue one of them appeared after the boat had sank. Now Candide finally had his money back. Also how Candide has reunited with three important people, Pangloss, Lady Cunegonde and Lady Cunegonde´s brother is the weirdest part.  I would have never imagined that this would happen, I thought that the story would be of Candide making a new life, never did I think it was to recuperate a person from the old one.

There are times when I start to get frustrated because of all the obstacles that Candide bumps into because it is as if bad luck was around him. Finally when he remeets with people, they are taken away, for example Cacambo he was his servant, who stayed by his side in Eldorado but they were separated since Candide wasn’t permitted to go to Buenos Aires. But even though it seems as if bad luck went behind him, something god always turned out of it. It is Pangloss´s theory that even though he might no be conscious while doing so he is following it making everything better at the end. With his optimism he is able to make bad things into good ones. I hope that Candide will find Lady Cunegonde again and that all goes well for him but it wont be easy. This book has shown me that anything can happen and that the craziest thing is the one that should be expected. That is one of the main reasons of why I am enjoying “Candide” because it makes me start thinking of crazy ideas that might be the ones that happen. Voltaire had a crazy and very creative mind that doesn’t give me any idea of where Candide will end up.