No I do not think that Candide’s punishments fit the crime. He was thrown out of the castle he lived in because his family is not as noble as the baron’s family and therefore he shouldn’t be allowed to marry Cunegonde. I think that exiling Candide from the castle was meant to prove to everyone that the baron would not accept anyone else getting involved in his family. I think that most of the crimes given in this book were meant to teach a lesson to others that those crimes and anything of the sorts are not allowed in the society that they lived in at the time. Candide was unfortunate enough to be the example, so to speak, in order to show everyone that any act of disobedience can and will be punished to the extreme. So far in the novel Candide has constantly been punished extremely over little things that happened. Another punishment was the hanging of Pangloss in order to stop natural evil which was unnecessary and useless.
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