Candide- A lovely satire

Summary
Candide is considered a handsome man, but straight off during the story it is obvious he is not that bright. He lives in Germany, specifically under the rule of the Baron of Thun-Ten-Tronch, and is in love with the Barons daughter, Cunegonde. One day Cunegonde sees Candide’s mentor “teaching” physics to a attractive and obiedient maid of her mothers. Cunegonde puts it into her mind to kiss Candide, upon kissing Candide, her father kicked him in the rear until he left the castle. Out of a weird and strange turn of events an enemy of the Baron, the Bulgars, attacked the castle and Candide also ends up in their army. He quickly rises in rank and becomes an officer.
Candide later meets a beggar who turns out to be his old master, Pangloss. His master has caught Syphilis from the maid, who caught it from someone else, who caught it from somewhere else, and so forth. Pangloss states this is the first gift the Old World gives to the New World. With help from his friend Pangloss and Candide end up on a ship, which gets destroyed, as Candides friend drowns from the selfishness of a man. The two men then survive an earthquake to end up in Spain. Pangloss is hanged as Candide was saved by his lovers aged servant, Cunegonde. Cunegonde tells Candide a hurried story of rape, murder, and enslavement she experienced. Candide inadvertently kills Cunegonde Jewish capture, who is renting the home they live in as well as Cunegonde. To finally escape Candide kills the other renter of Cunegonde, a Spanish governor and escapes with his love and her servant. As Cunegonde complains of her perils, her servant states she has been through much worst. Her story starts out about her being the daughter of a Pope; however, things went dark for her and her mother when they were abducted by pirates. The servant and her mother were raped, and enslaved for years and years, never really staying in one country or continent. She witness murder and genocide, greed, the plague every sin and every bad situation. It seemed like all the evil one country could cause; another country could mirror, or even top that evil. Her story ended with the questioning of everyone on the ship to see if their story could be compared to hers, none could compare. Candide lost his love however, when a Spanish ship came after him to trial execute him, for killing the Governor.
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“This earthquake is nothing novel, Pangloss replied; the city of Lima, in South Africa, underwent much the same sort f tremor, last year; same cause, same effects; there is surely a vein sulphur under the earth’s surface reaching from Lima to Lisbon. Nothing probable, said Candide; but, for Gods Sake, a little oil and wine (Voltaire).”
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For all of Pangloss’s intelligence, and his life of philosophy, he is in fact utterly useless. A man who is only book smart can’t really function in society, they have a brain, but that’s it. I believe this was a satire on philosophers who only spend their time thinking about nonsense and not actually trying to do something with their lives.