The Point of Resurrecting Dead Characters

Through the first 15 chapters of the book the reader has experienced Voltaire bring back multiple characters from the dead even when at the time of their death it seemed like there was no possible way the character survived. I think Voltaire does this to add another level of his satire in the novel. Since the novel Candide is making fun of optimism it would be hard for people to die and still be optimistic. Every time someone close to Candide dies he starts to question Pangloss' theory of optimism but when the characters come back to life Candide recognizes how this is always the best possible world. For example, once Candid learns of Cunegonde's death he is distraught and wonder show such a bad thing could happen in such a wonderful world. But after he finds Cunegonde in Portugal he realizes the error in his ways and that Pangloss will always be right. Another thing that Voltaire done that was interesting was keeping certain characters dead. The major example of this so far in the novel is killing the Anabaptist. The reason Voltaire did this is because he is killing all the actual kind people for good. In doing this Voltaire is again making fun of everyones theory on optimism.