Nature of the story (men vs women)

Nature of the story
In the story of Candide by Francois-Marie Arouet De Voltaire, we can see that Voltaire tells many stories from different point of views. Many of the stories are through the eyes of women. With that being stated we can see that this would be a story of independence and as well as male vs. female. For the princess of the pope, she saw many things throughout her lifetime. She states, “At last I saw all our Italian women, including my mother, torn to pieces, cut to bits, murdered by the monsters who were fighting over them” (536). We can see that here in the quote that yes women once again in that society was brutally victimized by these pirates that were so called men. Men that were too ashamed of themselves to be able to hold back but they wanted to be barbaric. And for one to see her own mother be torn to bits, that would be hard on anyone. Even thought that many of the victims in his story have hard times nothing compares to the lost of a parent. One other thing that stood out to be to be a point on men vs. women and also the nature of the story would be stated by Candide, “ Could this be Miss Cunegode?...His knees give way, speech fails him, he falls at her feed, Cunegonde collapses on the sofa” (530). We all can see that this is a great example of showing if a man truly cares for someone that he would show the sanative side of the men. Even thought in this time, men didn’t show emotions but Candide showed a new beginning for man.