Redemption-
In the book Candide, Voltaire sees that redemption is something that needs to be bought. Candide lives with his uncle who is a Baron. He is caught kissing the Barons daughter, (who is the love of Candide’s life) and is kicked out of the castle for this. Candide has been taught that he lives in the best possible world and hangs on to that optimistic attitude throughout his life. After he is kicked out of the castle, he travels around the world. In his travels, he gets caught up in countless crazy circumstances. His optimistic attitude helps and saves him from the things that he endures in his life. He gets redemption from all the trials that he has faced when he gets Cacambo and Cunégonde back. He had to pay for their freedom and also the freedom of the Old Woman and Pangloss. After all, the they have gone through, they
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The characters in Candide are put in situations where they are suffering at the hands of others that are bad people. There is a big difference between the people that are rich and the ones that are poor. The people that are in power take advantage of the less fortunate in their society. This makes their society a less desirable one to live in and one that eternal truths don’t apply to all the people. The women in this society are treated horribly. If they come from a lower class in the society, it is even worse. An example that Voltaire uses; “Whom that young lady would never marry because he had been able to prove only seventy-one quarterings, the rest of his genealogical tree having been lost through the injuries of time.” (Voltaire 1999.) The old woman in Candide was a daughter of a Pope and a Princess. She was watched her mother die at the hands of wicked people, beaten, and used as a sex slave. At the end of Candide, we see the society become more of a Just Society. Candide, Cacambo, Cunégonde, Pangloss, and the old woman work together in their new life as equals on a