Chapter 5
The earthquake destroys Lisbon; Pangloss philosophizes about its necessity while victims die around him.
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Voltaire's response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake dramatizes the problem of evil, with the Inquisition's superstitious response satirizing religious cruelty.
Chapter 6
The sages of Coimbra stage an auto-da-fe to prevent further earthquakes, hanging Pangloss and flogging Candide.
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