Candide Chapter 6 Analysis

Chapter 6:
The intellectual men of Lisbon wanted to give the people an auto-da-fé (ceremony of repentance). Men came with ropes to hang Pangloss for talking and have Candide whipped for listening with approval. They marched in processions and listened to a sermon. Church music filled the place and Candide was whipped in compass to the music, later Pangloss was hanged. On the same day, another earthquake occurred causing immense damage to the city. Candide lamented the death of Pangloss and Miss Cunégonde, while doubting of what good was everything happening for. The argument in this chapter I think might be how a group of people that have never seen you, decide what will happen to oneself. The author presents the argument by the unfair hanging …show more content…
The old woman suspects to be the Fraciscan friar who shared a room with them at an inn the day before. Candide is upset that the friar did not leave them enough money to continue their journey, but he also remembered from Pangloss that stated that everything on Earth belonged to everyone and the friar had as much right as them. They eventually decided to sell a horse to get to their destination. They set out for Cadiz where an army was being assembled. Candide showed the Bulgar military exercises and the new army honored him as their new captain. They sailed with the two horses and two valets, thinking about how they are destined for better. Cunégonde spoke about the misfortunes that happened to her, but the old woman finishes them with great curiosity to what could be her story. The argument in this chapter is that after all good things do happen after one’s suffering. The author presented it by the tactics that Candide showed the army, even though he almost got killed when he was in the Bulgarian army, this time he was saved because he learned the exercises in the past. I was left intrigued to know more about the old woman’s story and what got her to be with Cunégonde and Don …show more content…
She woke up in a house the man had carried her, took care, served and flattered her. He shares that he was born in Naples and there they castrate two-three thousand children every year, his was a success and he later became a court musician to the Princess of Palestrina (the mother). He shares that he had known her since birth and raised her to the age of six, they continue talking and he tells her he will bring her back to Italy and instead of taking her to where he originally said he takes her to Algiers and sold her, she later is infected with the plague but she recovered but most of Algiers perished. After the end of the plague she was bought and take to Tunis, bought by a merchant who resold her. She tells how she grew old in misery, and that one of her buttocks was cut off and eaten when she was fighting for Azov with the other soldiers. She then came across the servant of Don Issachar, and that he put her in charge of the lovely Cunégonde. The old woman finishes that if Cunégonde would have not irked about who has been challenged the more, she otherwise would have not shared the destiny that she possessed now. The argument of this chapter is to show what the old woman went through, but more what places around the globe used to be like, with the trade of people, the cannibalism, slavery and beatings. The author presents this argument