Point Of Hypocrisy In Voltaire's 'Candide'

The author is trying to make a point because he is the only one that deserves to live. Jacques, by offering to help Candide by giving him room and even a job, is seen as the only character that should and deserves to live, so the author takes a dig at all the other “righteous” and “religious” people in the story. I believe that the scene right before Candide meets Jacques, where the catholic priest is preaching on the street about charity, helps to give emphasis on the fact of Jacques kindness to our naive protagonist. Along the same lines, the question that the street preacher asks Candide furthers Voltaire’s point of hypocrisy throughout the duration of the text. Throughout the story, optimism is one of the main targets of Voltaire and I have conclude that with having Jacques die and never come back that he is trying to “kill” optimism by symbolically killing off Jacques. This whole point is made more important and vivid by having the one person who helps Candide being an Anabaptist. Along those same lines, as we approach the end of the text I

She represents a pretty good contrast to the ignorance that Candide suffers from. Although she is the daughter of Pope Urban X, she as experienced events far worse than Candide has. I believe that what she took form her life events is a form of experience and moral kindness that she is sort of able to pass on to others she encounters. I think that all the raping that Voltaire talks about is to undermine Plangloss’s theory of “Everything is for the best in the best of possible worlds” (as is the majority of the text). The old woman also reminds me of how Jacques help Candide and I was pondering the possibility that she, even though after all she has suffered, might meet the same fate as Jacques but I believe that she “loved life too