Redemption:
Voltaire’s satirical story took place around the Enlightenment period. Throughout the whole story, Voltaire wanted us to see the existing problems that society was facing at the time and uses his main character, Candide, to relate those experiences and trials he suffered to us. Candide’s mean goal was to acquire enough experience by traveling the world, by doing so, he meets all kinds of people and realizes that the world is not the same as he tough, but he always kept his optimism up high as the philosopher Pangloss taught him. Candide’s was able to demonstrate redemption in many instances, but one per say, was when he liberates the philosopher Pangloss, the old woman, and his love Cunégonde from captivity, by purchasing their way out to freedom.
At the end of the story, Candide’s redeems himself by living a humble and simple life, working at the farm with his family and not worrying about the rest of the world. The philosopher Pangloss also obtain redemption despite his suffering from contracting syphilis. His positivism helps him at the end as he knew that every misfortune a person could experience, is a step up for absolute positive change in the person’s life. Alternate characters in Voltaire’s story,
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He intentionally talks about some of these characters, that had no very important role in the story, with the purpose of letting us know that the moral truths of these religious people are not to be trusted and to show us that the Catholic church was corrupt, immoral, and presents them as people who do not follow their own rules. He states that Cunegonde was the Pope's daughter, showing the very best authority of the Catholic church as dishonest. Then he spoke about a Catholic Investigator who had a mistress and the Franciscan friar who became a jewel