Satirical Uses in Candide

Voltaire's satire through black humor and comedy. First, the author describes the atrocities as if they were perfectly normal. The horror raises the reader's emotion. The example of the war in which Candide is striking and supports disturbs the reader: "Here, old men covered with wounds watched die murdered their wives, who held their children to their bloody breasts; gutted there girls having satisfied the requirements of natural some heroes. " Voltaire also raises the laughter of the reader to condemn the facts. The "metaphysical-theologo-cosmolonigology" with the adjective "stupid" ruin the seriousness and credibility of Pangloss, who ...