Candide Satire Section 2

The primary purpose of Candide is to serve as satire. Candide satires numerous things throughout his entire novel. This is prevalent in the first section, and likewise is prevalent in the second. One thing he satires in this section is religious hypocrisy. Through the way he describes the events as unfolding he shows what is wrong with the world. In Candide, a Jew and Catholic Inquisitor share Candide's love Cunegonde, who was bought as if she was an object. Both of these men are high up religious men, but neither seems to object to slavery. When Candide kills the Jew and the Inquisitor, Voltaire writes "My lord the inquisitor was interred in a handsome church, and the Issachar's body was thrown upon a dunghill. (21)" This shows how the religious people cared only for their own kind, and not others. While this is not to say that all religious men are hypocrites, Voltaire uses generalisms to better illustrate his hypocrisy and the ridiculousness of his satire.