Has there ever been such thing as love? Why is that we believe that love works? Now more than ever, the divorce rate has gone up, is more common to find someone with divorced parents than married. There used to be no such thing as a divorce, because there was no love we married by interest. “Whom the young lady would never agree to marry because he could only claim seventy-one-quarterings” (pg 1) this was a common thing to do, reject someone because he did not have enough relatives to claim as royal. Imagine if I did that, it would be considered absurd, it was at this point where I realized this was satire. Although it had been explained in class how Voltaire used satire, I opened the book and start reading, I was bored wanted to play Farmville on facebook, and then it came to me, enjoy the book! So I kept reading, and I ask why did this fair lady did not marry the baron when he “was one of the most influential noblemen in Westphalia for his house had a door and several windows.” (pg1) I mean wow, I will take in consideration before I get married, my husband has to have more than seventy one royal relatives and his house needs to include a window and a door, and I will make sure that even if I love him and he does not have this I will think that my fortune is not made.
This is a beautiful time I would certainly like to live in, there is no hope of love and where there happens to be a spark of it, like it happened to Candide and lady Courgone, it is broken. Maybe Candide did not own enough doors, but he sure found his fortune when he was drafted to war, war “your fortune is made. Go where glory waits you. And with that they clapped him into irons and hauled him off to the barracks.” (pg23) Now could his life get better? Heartbroken and in war oh well I doubt it.
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