Candide

Candide is led to believe that the current world he lives in is the best possible place. unfortunately  for him he wound up finding out the hard way that what he believed for so long is wrong. He is sentenced to be flogged 36 times and this initially seems outrageous because the crime he was charged with is listening with an air of approval. his sentence is later changed to being flogged by 2000 people which seems more outrageous. The book is based off this type of outlandish comedy and wouldn't be as entertaining if the books tragedies weren't as preposterous as this. the penalty for his actions dont match and Candide doesn't deserve to be flogged by 2000 people because the "crime" he committed shouldn't be fit with this punishment, the punishment he revives seems like it should be handed to a rapist of a murder but but instead they give it to a person who is merely a student under a philosopher and and doest pose to be a threat to anyone else.