🔥The Inquisition ceremony serves as a means of public humiliation and punishment.
❓Candide questions how the death of his Savior, his tutor, and his love can happen in the best of all possible worlds.
🔥Three men are burned at the stake as heretics.
❓Candide reflects on the contradictions between the concept of the best of all possible worlds and the suffering he witnesses.
🔥Pangloss is hanged before the scene as a heretic.
Why are Pangloss and Candide arrested?
—Pangloss is arrested for heresy, and Candide is punished for listening to a heretic.
What happens during the Inquisition ceremony?
—The Inquisition ceremony serves as an opportunity for public humiliation and punishment as a warning to others.
Who are the other heretics in this chapter?
—The other heretics include a man who married his godmother and two Portuguese men who refused bacon.
Why does Candide question the concept of the best of all possible worlds?
—Candide questions how the death of his Savior, his tutor, and his love can happen in the best of all possible worlds.
What does Voltaire's inclusion of different heretics reveal?
—Voltaire's inclusion of different heretics reveals his sympathy for hidden religious beliefs and his impatience with religious superstition.
00:01Chapter Six starts with Pangloss and Candide being arrested for heresy.
00:09Candide is punished for listening to a heretic at an Inquisition ceremony.
00:15Candide witnesses the flogging of Pangloss and the burning of three heretics at the stake.
00:23Pangloss is hanged before being led away from the scene by an old woman.
00:30Candide questions how the death of his Savior, his tutor, and his love can happen in the best of all possible worlds.
