Satire in Voltaire's Candide

Voltaire's Candide is satyrical in the sense that it has the four main satire characteristics. In page 19, It says "The baron was one of the most influential noblemen in Westphalia, for his house has a door and several windows and his hall was actually draped with tapestry. Every dog in the courtyard was pressed into service when he went hunting, and his grooms acted as whips."

It is hyperbolical that 'every dog in the courtyard was pressed into service', because it is an exaggeration. Irony is found in the part of teh door and windows, because obviously it is ironical that someone with a house with a door and windows is an important person, that is very common. This is in the literal sense, but analitical I think it is that the guy is mocking the people who think they can be important because they have an armored car with two motorbikes stoping traffic for them. The target, as said before, are those type of people who think that if they have expensive things then they have more power. As of absurdity, the whole parragraph seems absurd to me. There is a guy who think he's cool because his home has windows and a tapestry, and hunts with many dogs. *Newsflash*, your'e not cool! You are not cool if you live in a 5, 000 square meters house, unless you act cool with other people, be humble and respectful. This is a huge problem we have in our culture, the rich opressing the poor. It seems that this has been around for long, because Voltaire noticed it 200 years ago!