Years pass and Candide and Cacambo are still lost in the South American jungle while Cunegonde and the Old Lady remain at the governor’s house. Tired? Confused? Need yet another break? Here: Have an INEXPLICABLE time-jump! (If you’re thinking the body count is getting a little out of control, you’re right.) The two begin to fight, and, somewhat predictably, Candide ends up stabbing Maximilian and needing to flee. Candide explains he still wishes to marry Cunegonde, and Maximilian still refuses to give his blessing. (You guessed it it’s the same camp where Maximilian and Paquette have been hiding out.) Instantly recognizing one another, Candide and Maximilian quickly fall back on old habits. Maximilian and Paquette end up at a Jesuit camp deep in the jungle, while Cunegonde gets a marriage proposal from the Governor of Montevideo, and poor Candide is forced to flee once again, as he’s managed to annoy the Spanish/Uruguayan police, too.Ĭandide employs a local named Cacambo as his companion, and the two venture through the wilderness until they uncover a Jesuit camp. But hold onto your hats, kids, because guess who’s there, too? Maximilian and Paquette (yup, they survived the Westphalian war as well). When we last left our hero, he was headed for…Ĭandide, Cunegonde, and the Old Lady reach Montevideo. Ready to return to the death-defying (and sometimes absurdly ridiculous) adventures of Candide? Sounds good. He jumps at the chance and, along with Cunegonde and the Old Lady, embarks for the New World. Miraculously, Candide is suddenly offered a position fighting for Jesuits (missionary Catholics) in South America. Pangloss is hanged, but Candide manages to get by with only a beating. The two men are brought to an auto-da-fé (aw-toh-duh- FEY), a public execution ceremony in which heretics are tried and executed. Even more terrible? Almost exactly as Candide and Pangloss arrive on the Portuguese shore, a volcano erupts, and the resulting earthquake all but destroys the city of Lisbon, killing tens of thousands of people (once again, extremely sad and also immensely disturbing, especially seeing as it actually happened on November 1, 1755).Ĭandide and Pangloss are promptly arrested by the Lisbon branch of the Spanish Inquisition, which is looking for scapegoats to blame for the catastrophe.
Reunited, Candide and Pangloss team up with a generous Anabaptist (basically, a guy who doesn’t believe in baptizing infants…a heretic in the eyes of European Protestants and Catholics but, to Candide’s surprise, a decent sort of fellow) and decide to set sail for…īut along the way, a storm hits, and the Anabaptist is drowned (again…genuinely sad).
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