Candide is a novel by Voltaire where the main character is Candide follow by Cunegonde, the daughter of a German baron, who acts as Candide’s benefactor until he discovers Candide’s love for his daughter. From that moment Candide was kicked out from the castle and had to travel a lot to save his life.

This novel is so fascinating, not only because talk about love but because all those characters give a moral to people’s life. For example, one of the characters that grabbed my attention was the old women because even though she had to face a lot of obstacles she realized that life was better than death and it was ridiculous to try to suicide herself and run from problems.” –With great pain, I untangled myself  from this vast heap of bleeding bodies and dragged myself under  a great orange tree by a neighboring  brook, where I collapsed, from terror, exhaustion, horror, despair, and hunger.”(371) this old woman had to face too many things at the same time, not only that she  had to be part all of misfortunes but also she had to be part of all the massacre made by that time. This woman had to work as slave, was raped and also had to presence the death of her mom. This woman is so admirable because with that miserable life that she was living a weak person would committed a suicide. However, she showed that sometimes in life people have to be strong and leave problems away. As Pangloss would say “everything is for the best” in other words, those bad and horrible circumstances gave her experience and strength to guide people like Candide and Cunegonde.

Characters like Candide and Cunegonde are examples of how people have to fight for what they want, Candide had to confront millions of obstacles to get to the place his princess was. At the end Candide could found his love and the old women who as a real women who was part of his journey. –well, are still madly in love with Miss Cunegonde of Thunder-Ten-Tronckh? Yes, ma’am, replied Candide” (395) he showed that his love was real for miss Cunegonde and that all the sacrifices he was making was because he wanted to be with the love of his life.