Chapter 2-resumé af Zadig

Hvad sker der?

1. Azora condemns the widow Cosrou for planning to redirect the stream that determines the length of her mourning vow.
2. Disgusted by Azora's display of virtue, Zadig secretly makes a plan with his friend Cador.
3. Azora returns from the country, hears that Zadig is dead, and declares that she wants to die beside him.
4. Cador comforts Azora, offers to share Zadig's supposed inheritance, and gains her affection as her grief eases.
5. Claiming severe pleurisy, Cador says that a dead man's nose is his only certain cure.
6. Azora brings a razor to Zadig's coffin, but he rises and tells her not to condemn Cosrou again.

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Zadig reveals the purpose of his deception. Azora's readiness to cut his nose undermines her claim to judge another widow.

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