Candide | Social Sensitivity
Cacambo, a man of mixed race, becomes Candide's friend as well as his servant. Other characters that befriend Candide and help him include Jacques, an Anabaptist, and Martin, a scholar and Manichean heretic. Voltaire goes to great lengths to show how these men, who would have been reviled by Europeans of high status, were trustworthy and honest to a far greater extent than the people who should have been held accountable for helping Candide.
In contrast, many of the characters in positions of leadership and social status are lampooned; their desires, greed, and frailties are...
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