Who's Being Mocked Here?

Voltaire has many targets he mocks in Candide, but a very clear one in chapter XIII is the nobility, or high class, at the time. When Candide, Lady Cunegonde and the old lady arrive at Buenos Ayres, Don Fernando immediately falls for Lady Cunegonde. He asks if she is married, and Candide says no, so he declares his passion to her and asks for her hand in marriage. This is something very commonly seen, rich people handing out marriages thinking everyone will marry them because they are important and have money. This is not only back then, you still see it alot.

What is worse, Lady Cunegonde goes for advice to the old lady, ans she says 'yes marry him, he has money and is important'! So even though the guy thinks he's cool because he has money, she continues his flow and is about to say yes! She's a heartless b**ch! It's the second time she is with somebody for their money. Voltaire's making fun of both of them here.

On chapter 14, to see the target is even easier. Just by reading a couple pages I found it. It is again the high class, aristocracy. They think they are superior because they have money and power. In page 62 they say "An excellent dinner was served in gold plates, and while the paraguayans ate their maize on wooden dishes in the open field in the full blaze of the sun, his reverence the Colonel retired to the shade of his arbour". The Colonel makes his army eat simple things on simple plates in the hot sun, while he, in the shade, eats in golden plates. I kind of assimilated this to the way many people treat their maids, drivers, workers, ect. Give them inferior things, not let them even try to be higher class. Seems to me like things haven't changed much since.