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Comparison Of Candide And The Lowest Animal

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In Candide and The Lowest Animal, the actions of religious people are shown to be incorrect. Voltaire, the writer of the book Candide, uses the characters of the book to show that the action of religious people are wrong and cruel. Similarly, Mark Twain, the writer of The Lowest Animal, explains to us that humans are religious and their actions can be insensible. Both Voltaire and Twain uses many satire languages to tell the action of religious people are hypocritical because they only like people if the person agrees with their thinking.
In the book Candide, Voltaire uses the his characters to shows that religious people are hypocritical because they are cruel and only want to get what they want. After being kicked out of the castle Candide went through …show more content…

This shows irony because Candide expected that these great religious people would help him no matter who he is, but instead Candide’s distress was completely ignored and Candide was yelled at. Further in the book, where Candide finally reunites with his love, Cunegonde tells Candide about what she have went through after she was separated from Candide. After Candide left the castle, the Bunglers raided the castle and raped women and killed the people of the castle. The leader of the Bunglers took Cunegonde as a prisoner, but after some times the Bungler leader sold Cunegonde to Don Issachar. When the Inquisitor, who is a religious leader, met Cunegonde instead of helping Cunegonde he wanted to get Cunegonde for himself. After the Inquisitor threatens Don Issachar with an auto de fe, “Finally Don Issachar, intimidated, made a bargain whereby the house and I belong to both of them in common: to him on Mondays, Wednesdays and the Sabbath, and to the Inquisitor on the other days of the week.”(32) Don Issachar knows that he is unable to escape the power of the Inquisitor and decide to split the days when Cunegonde is belonged to. This also

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