4. Immediately upon leaving Eldorado, Candide and Cacambo encounter a slave who has had a leg and a hand cut off. He tells them, “It is the price we pay for the sugar you eat in Europe” (p. 52). What relationship is Voltaire suggesting here between happiness and suffering, between the best of all possible worlds and the worst of all possible worlds? How might Voltaire make this point if he were writing today?

I believe that the relationship, Voltaire is suggesting between happiness and suffering is that in order for the majority of people to be happy and satisfied that some people that are considered less important must suffer. The people of all possible worlds are served by a silver platter. They are given what they want, when they want it. The worst of all possible worlds have no choice but to serve those who are being served by a silver platter. They have to be beaten and tortured just to satisfy the needs of the higher people.