Remember how we thought that Lady Condegonde was dead? It just turns out that she isn't. She is once again reunited with her love, Candide and explains absolutely everything that happened to her throughout the time they were seperated.
At all started at her Thunder-ten-tronckh when the Bulgars arrived. They simply began there night at the house by cutting her father and brothers throat, and making a "mincemeat" of her mother. It makes me think whether this whole passage is hyperbole or absurdity. Why would it be hyperbole? Well when she starts to refer as her mothers death as a making of mincemeat, it made me think that she was really exaggerating things. I find it totally normal that she is referring to her moms death is such sort of way. I mean its her mother, being killed right in front of her eyes, things obviously will seem worse then they seem. This situation could leave a person's life traumatized. At the same time I don't see things being exaggerated at all. Some people seem to believe that violence is a way to solve problems, especially throughout the time this novel takes place. So why not? Why wouldn't people cut other throats? Why wouldn't someone be made into a mincemeat, while being killed? Even now a days, there are some cases where people use this type of violence, to fight for their views. I also find this a bit weird. It's kind of ironic to think that the people Candide, Condegonde love, used to fight for, were people that killed her whole entire family.
At the same time all of this just seems absurd. The books title is "Candide Voltaire" or "Optimism". In Merriam- Websters dictionary, it states that optimism specifically means a doctrine that this world is the possible world. After everything Condegonde went threw I find that there's no connection to her life story and optimism. After seeing her family members die, she was beaten, taken as a kitchen slave for a Jew and Inquisitor 7 days a week, she saw the death of two Jews, the death of Pangloss, someone she dearly loved, and saw how the love of her life was beaten as well. To be honest I can't find one single reason why there is any happiness in her world, or why her world would be the best. I know that sounds extremely depressing, but you can't say you disagree. I have no idea how she is able to keep her head held high, after all of this. I don't know how she is able to move on with her life, and act as if nothing had happend. I have absolutely no idea how she just accepting what happend to her. I guess something that does makes things a little "optimistic" is the fact that she reunited with Candide. She got someone to talk to, and someone who listened to every single word. After all the tragedy I personally believe thats exactly what she needed. Things started to twist around when a little green monster named jealousy got into Candide. The death of the Jew and the Inquisitor seemed to break every single bit of peace Condegone had in a way found. So I ask you this: By reuniting with her long lost love was she able to fill up the whole in her heart, or just make matters in her life worse?
At the same time all of this just seems absurd. The books title is "Candide Voltaire" or "Optimism". In Merriam- Websters dictionary, it states that optimism specifically means a doctrine that this world is the possible world. After everything Condegonde went threw I find that there's no connection to her life story and optimism. After seeing her family members die, she was beaten, taken as a kitchen slave for a Jew and Inquisitor 7 days a week, she saw the death of two Jews, the death of Pangloss, someone she dearly loved, and saw how the love of her life was beaten as well. To be honest I can't find one single reason why there is any happiness in her world, or why her world would be the best. I know that sounds extremely depressing, but you can't say you disagree. I have no idea how she is able to keep her head held high, after all of this. I don't know how she is able to move on with her life, and act as if nothing had happend. I have absolutely no idea how she just accepting what happend to her. I guess something that does makes things a little "optimistic" is the fact that she reunited with Candide. She got someone to talk to, and someone who listened to every single word. After all the tragedy I personally believe thats exactly what she needed. Things started to twist around when a little green monster named jealousy got into Candide. The death of the Jew and the Inquisitor seemed to break every single bit of peace Condegone had in a way found. So I ask you this: By reuniting with her long lost love was she able to fill up the whole in her heart, or just make matters in her life worse?
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