So long farewell to you I say goodbye.

I know I should be writing about the rest of the book, and I will just when I get this temptation out- because really I have to say it KARMA IS A BITCH! Why do I say this? Because just when chapter twenty was beginning I got to a part where I could express this (karma is a bitch).Just when Candide had no optimisim left, “they could still have occupied the whole voyage discussing moral and physical evil”(91), and is sailing off to France Candide recovers one of his stolen sheep, and sees how the Dutch captain boat sinks and he dies, “‘you observe’ said Candide to Martin, ‘that crime is sometimes punished. That rogue of a Dutch captain has had the fate he deserved.’”(93)

Now Candide “still inclined to Pangloss’s philospophy whenever he recollected what he had in his pockets and remembered his Cunégonde” (91). With all this joy he set off towards Europe to meet again with Cunégonde, the old lady, and Cacambo, still facing some situations like in Venice. He has been waiting for several months and still no arrival of his beautiful Cunégonde, he starts to agree with Martin that the world is misery and thus: has no hope. “How right you are, my dear Martin! There is nothing here but illusion and one calamity after another” (112), why keep on going with life if, “There’s no doubt about it, Cunégonde is dead, and I may as well die, too” (112), and the irony of it all is that when he finds her he doesn’t want to marry her, because she is no longer beautiful, which shows how humans are so vane and superficial. Worse than this he still marries her to defy her brother, which by some supernatural phenomenon was still alive, and Candide found him with Pangloss, who yes is still alive, and bought them out of slavery, this shows how pride eats a human kind up. Without a doubt a book to be remembered for is twisted and yet so funny satire.