Candide Chapters 21-25

Chapter 21 Summary: Candide and Martin get closer to France, and Martin begins story telling. Martin talks about jokingly on the different places he's been. He says France is full of fools and lovesick madmen, and Venice is no good unless you’re from Venice. He also explains that the world was created "to make us mad." He says that men have always been evil Historical allusion : The historical allusion is a biblical allusion to Genesis. When Martin is talking about how all men are evil, Candide steps in and argues that everybody has free will. God created us with free will Satire: The satire is when Martin is talking about Venice and France. It's taking a stab at both of those places, saying Venice is only important if you live there.

Chapter 22 Summary: The ship finally arrives in France, and the first thing Candide does is buy a carriage. As soon as Candide gets to the hotel he gets sick, and he gets a lot,of care because of a big diamond he is wearing. Candide loses a lot of money in a card game to an abbé of Perigord. Martin and Candide talk more about free will, The abbé arranges for Candide to meet with the Marchioness of Parolignac, who seduces Candide and gets all of his rings. The Abbé forges a letter from Cunégonde saying she is in France, where they meet an officer. Candide bribes the officer with diamonds. Historical allusion : The historical allusion in this chapter is when the Abbé pretends to be Cunégonde and deceives Candide. This is like the bible where Satan deceives humans to believe he is God.

Satire: The satire is that after gambling, Candide has dinner with a scholar, who talks about tragedies and what makes literature great. This is satire because the book Candide has elements of tragedy in it

Chapter 23 Main Points: Candide and Martin talk about horrors that both France and Britain have in common while on a ship to England. When Candide and Martin dock in Portsmouth they witness an execution of an admiral who did not win enough battles. After seeing the execution Candide decides not to even set foot in England and decides to sail straight to Venice to see Cunegonde. Historical Allusion: Martin claims that in his life he was persecuted by the Surinamese clergy for heresy because they thought he was a Socinian. The Socinians were a Christian sect formed during the Reformation who rejected Christ, the trinity, and original sin. Satire: The satire in this chapter is the admiral being executed for not killing enough French soldiers. It is ironic because he was sent to risk his life to fight for his country, when his country were the ones who killed him in the end for doing his duty.

Chapter 24 Summary: When Candide and Martin arrive at Venice, Candide goes to search for Cacambo. He then went to search for Cacambo in every inn and coffee-house. Candide searched for months but had no luck in finding Cacambo. With the struggle of not finding them and Candide assuming something bad has happened, he wished that he had never left El Dorado. Later, both Martin and Candide see a Theatin holding a girl in his arms. When asking the couple to dinner, Candide finds out that the woman was Paquette. She then tells Candide that she had bad events happen to her which made her the unhappy woman she is. They asked the Theatin that was with Paquette if he was happy and he said that he was also unhappy. Paquette says that there is someone who is happy and that is Lord Pococurante. Candide and Martin both want to set out and meet Lord Pococurante. Satire: The happiness and unhappiness of Paquette and the Theatin. Both Martin and Candide proposed a wager with each other. The wager that they made was essentially making fun of Paquette and the Threatin's happiness. They figured the couple was happy by the way they were walking hand in hand with each other. Historical Allusion: The Great Depression (1929-1939). The Great Depression was a time of hardship in the United States due to the economic collapse of the stock market. This was a time of panic and decline of many families. This has, in a way, the same effect on Paquette and the Theatin's happiness. Paquette had been going through great depression because of experiences and events that had occurred during a time period.

Chapter 25 SUMMARY Candide and his friend Martin go and visit the palace of a noble Pococuranté. The house of Pococuranté is elegant with rare paintings and rare art. The garden of Pococuranté is exquisite and is very beautiful. They are greeted by two women who serve in the house of the noble. SATIRE The mockery of great philosophers like Plato and Socrates and in a way saying how what they've said isn't philosophical and all facts they have said don't make sense. HISTORICAL ILLUSION The historical illusion in candide is talking about Moses and the Ten Commandments. Pococuranté is a noble and is a writer with lots of books and in a way is like Moses when he gets the Ten Commandments. "That barbarian who writes a tedious commentary in ten books of rumbling verse, on the first chapter of Genesis? that slovenly imitator of the Greeks, who disfigures the creation, by making the Messiah take a pair of compasses from Heaven’s armory to plan the world; whereas Moses represented the Diety as producing the whole universe by his fiat?"