American Long Names

As I kept reading Candide I began to look for a part in which they made fun of something. I chapter 13 I found a clear example of this. It said “upon the governor, Don Fernando d’Ibarra y Figueroa y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza, a nobleman with a degree of pride appropriate to one who bore so many names”. (Pg 58) Here we can see how Voltaire is making fun of the important people in America who had extraordinary long names like Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte Blanco better known as Simon Bolivar or in this case “Don Fernando d’Ibarra y Figueroa y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza”. If we look back at the quotation we may see that it also states “a nobleman with a degree of pride appropriate to one who bore so many names”. It tells us that all the names he has show the importance he has; even better, it tells us that the pride he has of himself is showed by the many names he has. We can see why Voltaire would make fun of those arrogant American governors.