Candide s 3 Nightmares Church, People, And Government

Candide’s 3 Nightmares: Church, People, and Government In Candide, Voltaire writes about a guy named Candide, he has faced and achieved many things in his life. As the story progresses, you will see that Candide has the opportunity to travel often while enduring many adversities on his journey to reconnect with the woman of his dreams, Cunà ©gonde, whom he planned to marry. Candide describes her as, â€Å"Her daughter, Cunà ©gonde was a buxom girl of seventeen with a fresh, rosy complexion altogether seductive† (Voltaire 19). Throughout the story, it is seen that the people of the towns, along with the government and the churches he would visit, mistreated Candide. Voltaire’s compilation of events endured by Candide on his voyage to find his first true love, Cunà ©gonde, shows a difficult task. Candide struggles through the voyage are halted by encounters with the people, churches, and government. The people that Candide encountered, there were some good, and some were corrupted. Although the bad out ways the good, Candi de is able to reconnect with people, while also creating relationships with others than assist on the voyage. On the journey Candide was able to run into an old teacher, Panglos, who came along and helped him get through much of everything until he was hung by a government who felt he was a threat. When it comes to people Voltaire places significant emphasizes on the corruption of people, especially when talking about man because it could be seen that he believes,