Love Story...

If you have read Candide by Voltaire, the first thing that comes to mine when talking about love is the relationship between Candide and Lady Cunegonde. Well… No.

As I kept reading this book, I got more confused. I know there’s a romance between Cunegonde and Candide, but there’s a stronger relationship between Pangloss and Candide. This is not a "man-women" type of love, but it's a type of relation. Pangloss is a philosopher, he's Candide's teacher. "Pangloss taught metaphysico-thelogo-cosmolo-nigoloy" Pg. 20. This is how Voltaire describes Pangloss's job. The author using again satire is exaggerating and making fun of phhylophers using absurdity. 

The relationship between these two characters it's really special. Candide is really naive, and being Pangloss his teacher all his life is based in what he toughed him. As I have been able to interpret it Voltaire tries to portrait Pangloss as the classic stereotype of a philosopher. When he says that Pangloss teaches  "metaphysico-thelogo-cosmolo-nigoloy", he is trying to make fun of what philosophers think they are teaching in a sarcastically way. Candide is not the exception of the author's way of cruising people. He portraits the classic apprentice that believes everything his teachers says. This is what makes their relationship so special. These is the reason why THIS is the love story, not the Cunegonde and Candide.