Satire

Candide is a parody that includes many examples of satire. But in these chapters specifically I would like to go in depth in the examples and different ways that irony is included, also how Voltaire makes fun of other people. I am going to start by showing the example of irony that I caught. This was: "But I have never forgotten that I am the daughter of a Pope."(57) This is said by the old woman. But going back to the ironic part of this is that the pope is not supposed to have any children, they should not reproduce themselves. And evidently here in the book the pope did reproduce himself and had kids.

Then there is also another example of satire which is target. This one we can see towards the arrogance of the nobility. This target come from part of Don Fernando, the way that Voltaire does this is by stating how naturally the nobility should have power and money. But in this book Don Fernando which is the representation of the nobility is describes as: a lair, a cheater and in a way a joker. So by this we can see the huge amount of target vs. the nobility’s arrogance.

And last I saw that Voltaire makes fun of Don Fernando by mentioning hin full name, which also includes all his honors and tittles that he has earned in time. “Don Fernando d’Ibarra y Figueroa y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza, a nobleman with a degree of pride appropriate to one who bore so many names”. (Pg 58)