Candide: Chapter VI

In this chapter there is a lof of irony, for example on page 37, "... my dear Anabaptist ( the best of men!)

To me it seemed as if he meant it in a sarcastic way with the parenthesis because why could Voltaire not have written it without the parenthesis just like the next sentence. "And Lady Cunégonde, the pearl amongst all women!"Why wasn't 'the pearl amongst all women!' in parenthesis? I believe it is because he actually believes she is a pearl.

Throughout this short chapter, a lot of things happen. One main this is that Candide and Pangloss are sent to jail. The reason they were arrested was because one of them was speaking and the other was nodding in agreement to what the other said. Further down in that paragraph you can somehow put the pieces together to who did what. As the two men were released to be hanged, they both had to put on a sacrificial cassock. The reason why you could tell who did what was because Candides cassock had inverted flames and devils without tails or claws. Except Pangloss's cassock had devils on it that did have tails and claws. Meaning that Pangloss was the more dangerous one and what he said had gotten them both in jail.

In the end of this chapter, Pangloss is hanged. Candide then wonders if this is as bad as it gets. If he is living the best of all possible worlds, then he can't imagine what the rest of the worlds are like. Luckily, an old woman comes rescue him and tells him to follow her.