Candide hopes to go to the new world to find that “the best of all possible universes.” As soon as he gets there, the reader starts to see that the new world free of all the corruption and the wickedness, is in reality just as crooked as the Old world.
The rebellion in Paraguay shows the hypocrisy of politics carried over to the new world. The Jesuits are leading a revolt of the natives against the Spanish colonial government, yet it’s quite obvious that these natives hate the Jesuits enough to want to eat them if they come across one, not because they are hungry but merely because they hate them. The Jesuits, who are a hypocrisy in themselves, claim to be priests fighting for welfare of th
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