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__Plot__ Beginning: At may times characters ecounter people of high authority in the church who abuse their power and take advantage of people. Like the Govenor or the Inquestor who are supposed to be honorable men yet take advantage of Cunegonde. Middle:In part XV before Candide kills him, the baro calls Candide "his brother ad his savior" embracing him but when Candide mentions wanting to marry his sister his tone changes and he cuts him with his sword. End:Candide spends the majority of the story searching for his great love Cunegonde so he can marry her he even leaves the great city of El Dorado to be with her but then he realized she turned ugly he didn’t //love// her anymore yet he still married her.

__Character__ Beginning:From the begining of the story Candide is described as inocent yet he kills the Inquestor and The Baron. Middle: Both Candide and Pangloss believe that all is for the best however when something goes wrong Candide tries to fix it unlike Pagloss who does't iterfere with anything and doesn't make any effort in life like whe James the Anabaptist drowns he tell Candide not to help because it is what is meant to happen. End: Candide claims that it is the best of all worlds but he seems to oly believe that when good things are happenig to him for example, when he loses all of his sheep he becomes very hopeless but when he finds one of them and gais some of his wealth back he becomes potimistic agai.u

__Setting__ Beginning: In part 2 once Candide is thrown out of the castle he describes it as " the most magnificent of castles that imprisioned the purest of noble young ladies" If the castle is so magnificent why would Cunegonde be trapped there? Middle: It is believed that Paris is a beautiful and peaceful place but Martin's opinion contradicts that according to Martin Paris is chaotic and filled with foolish people. While there he was robbed and imprisioned. End: Many of the places Candide traveled to were filled with large, beautiful castles yet the people who owned them were never satisfied. In the conclusion, all Candide and his friends have is a small farm but they manage to be content with it.

__Point of View__ Beginning: In part V James the Anabaptist rescues the sailor from drowning even though the sailor was beating him but when James falls the sailor does nothing to rescue him. The Old Woman, despite all that she has been through is very hopeful. She is mindful of all the bad things that have happened to her but she remains strong unlike Cunegonde who mopes about all the misery in her life. The old woman knows that there are others less fortunate than her, Cunegonde laughs in part X because she believes the old woman couldn’t possibly be worse off than her. Middle: The perspective of the citizens of El Dorado is very different than the rest of Europe they only believe in one God and they do not believe in praying to God because they believe they have all that they need. End: Candide’s point of view changes from the beginning to the end. He starts as a follower of Pangloss and follows the philosophy that all is for the best. In the end he ignores Pangloss’ philosophy and optimism and decides to just work rather the philosophize.

__Satire__ Beginning: The Old woman who takes care of Candide and Cunegonde was the daughter of the Pope, as the head of the Roman Catholic church the Pope is supposed to be celibate. Middle: In part XXV Candide and Martin meet a Senator who is very hypocritical he buys the most expensive paintings he can find even though he doesn’t like them, he enjoys music for only a half hour then he hates it, and he owns several books that he doesn’t like what they say. End: Throughout the novel Pangloss’ philosophy parodies the ideas of Gottfried Leibniz who believed that all evil that happened in the world was all to make the world a better place. Candide and Cunegonde believed this once but by the end they dismissed this belief. Even at the end Pangloss maintained this theory as he tells Candide if all those things didn’t happen you wouldn’t have ended up here.