Back in the days, superstition and spiritual damnation were the main influences of everyday life. Ignorance and corruption ruled the political and religious worlds. Incompetent nobilities who were blinded by greed and gluttony ruled many kingdoms of the known world. Religion was hypocritical. Th...
Although Candide had committed several fowl deeds such as killing a Spanish Inquisitor and showing infidelity to his love Cunegonde, in the end he is generally admired by the reader. ... Other characters that provide reason to infer Candide contains Voltaire's feeling on religion are the Jesuit priest with homosexual tendencies, and the Grand Inquisitor who buys and keeps Cunegonde as his sex slave. ...
Candide illustrated this fact after the Lisbon earthquake when the Grand Inquisitor is ordered to ward off any more earthquakes. ... Candide explores the corruption in the Church especially the inhumanity of the clergy, most notably the Inquisitor, in hanging and executing his fellow citizens over philosophical differences. ... In executing the citizens to insure there won't be another earthquake the Inquisitor looks foolish when another earthquake occurs later that day. ...
Candide again regains some optimism but soon finds that Cunegonde is Don Issachar's woman and he shares her with the Grand Inquisitor. He ends up killing both men when Don Issachar comes home and finds Candide in the house and then has to kill the Grand Inquisitor because he comes in later that night catching Candide in the act. ... The old woman warns Candide that an officer from Spain was coming to arrest the murderer of the Grand Inquisitor. ...
Candide was so happy to see Cunegonde was alive, but was saddened to find her to be two men's mistress, one who was the Grand Inquisitor. ... When everything finally seemed to be going Candide's way, he had to flee Buenos Aires because they found out that he was the murder of the Grand Inquisitor. ...
