Saturday, October 13, 2012
Candide's Crime and Punishments, do they fit?
Candide is quite the unlucky character throughout this story. He has faced the shadow of death on numerous occasions within his short journey. He has been kicked out of his home, tricked in to joining the army, beaten, survived natural disasters and has even been threatened to be eaten. Pangloss would argue that all these things were meant to happen but what were Candide’s crimes that would cause such an unreasonable amount of repercussion, and do his crimes fit the punishments? He has murdered three human beings and the lovers of two women. Five souls have been carried away from this earth, by his hand, and yet he still lives his stupid little life without any true change in character. I guess you could say that the worse crime he has done would have been the killings and he has not been punished, but seeing the way he has been living his life thus far, with all his misfortunes, maybe a fair punishment can’t be too far away.
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