After Candide and Cunegonde separate he and Cacambo arrive in Paraguay. Voltaire describes this place as an “…beautiful summer-house, ornamented with a very pretty colonnade of green and gold marble, and with trellises, enclosing parquets, humming-birds, fly-birds, and all other rare birds" which is very ironic (33). It is ironic because the setting is set as a beautiful place, yet horrible things happen. Normally when the setting is describe as beautiful and full of life great things should happened. For Candide the exact opposite happens when Cunegonde’s brother slices his face and when he kills him for it.
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