To Candide’s surprise, Cunegonde responds to his advances, thinking of his strong financial position. Soon all of them reach Buenos Aires, the Argentinian capital, where they plan to marry but the governor, Don Fernando, appears on the scene and starts advances toward Cunegonde. The old woman, during their voyage to South America, discloses her true identity as being the daughter of the Pope and her ordeals during her captivity. Candide kills both of them and runs for his life, taking his old nurse and his beloved with him, leaving ultimately for South America. Soon they arrive on the scene when she is engaged in conversation with her former paramour, Candide. She discloses that now Don Issachar and the Grand Inquisitor, both are her owners. She also informs her abduction by a captain, who traded her with Don Issachar. Surprisingly, she takes him to his beloved, Cunegonde who explains the genocide of her family and her own rape and disembowelment. When Candide comes to his senses after receiving his punishment, he finds an old woman nursing him. Pangloss soon finds himself in hot waters on account of allegations of heresy against him and is sentenced to death, while Candide faces flogging for being his disciple. Adding to the misery Candide along with his professor face inquisition running rampant against the people of the opposite religion. As soon as they land they see that Lisbon city has fallen to the ground due to the earthquake. However, he advises him to stay optimistic, and taking Jacques, the trio goes to Lisbon when their ship is wrecked in the storm where Jacques is drowned saving a sailor. He informs that his contact with syphilis has transpired to him and that Candide’s beloved Cunegonde and the family have become a victim of the invading Bulgar army. While living over there with an Anabaptist, named Jacques he comes across a haggard beggar who happens to be Professor Pangloss. However, he escapes the encampment and leaves for the Netherlands. Finding himself living upon his own, he joins the Bulgarian army and leaves the camp when he faces arrest for leaving the camp as a deserter and becomes a victim of flogging. However, when Candide is engaged in an intimate action with his beloved, the baron finds him and immediately orders his expulsion. But Candide was actually in love with his cousin for her beauty and suppresses his feelings. Pangloss has an illicit affair with the chambermaid Paquette and Cunegonde see them kissing and wanted to try this on Candide. He teaches them and believes in optimistic philosophy and this world is the ‘best of all possible worlds’.
Professor Pangloss, his mentor, teaches him along with his cousin Cunegonde and Young baron. The story of the novella shows that an illegitimate born young man, Candide, is living in luxury in the castle of his uncle, a German baron.
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