Dead or Alive?

Candide is a book full of violence were people often die in different and grotesque ways, we find at the begining of the book that Pacquette is dead later on we find out that Lady Cunegode is dead, as well as his brother the baron, and Candides dear philosopher Pangloss. These characters are killed under critical and grotesque circumstances and one would never think that we would hear from them again, I mean when somebody is dead that's the way its going to be, they are not coming back to life again. One would never imagine that people would survive after being hanged, disembowled, stabbed by a sword, and at the bord of disection! And all the characters previously mentioned went through all those things and we find them to be alive at the end. I think Voltaire is mocking the reader. Every time I read somebody revived I thought to myself is Voltaire actually serious? Well offcourse he is not, Candide is a satire and when Voltaire brings all this people back to life he is mocking the concept of death and how "poorly" people killed each other because they all revived! Whether it was because of a wet rope or something else they are all alive, I mean seriously dead or alive?

This concept or theme of people dyeing and actually being alive at the end is also present in the movie Sweeney Todd, we think that the main characters wife is dead all the time and at the end we find out she never died she is actually an old women we constantly see through out the movie, and we discover its her when she is actually dead. I think that movie could also be some sort of a satire because we never notice that the old lady is actually the wife, the director of the movie could be mocking the viewers and the actual man who was incapable of recognizing his beloved wife.