Examples Of Optimism In Candide

In the fifth chapter of Candide that attacks the dissatisfaction of a cosmic earthquakes, volcanoes and security sham, and here intervenes Pope in his article is that Voltaire uses irony, a formula which is characterized by in most of his writings. Here is an example of a strike Voltaire discovery of the restrictions imposed on the philosophy teacher Pangloss for the definition and concept of optimism for him and by extension or antagonism on the Pope and Leibniz opinion during a dinner after the earthquake when he says" This is all for the best ... For if there is a volcano beneath Lisbon, then it cannot be anywhere else; for it is impossible for things to be elsewhere than where they are. For all is well" page… 14 chapters'5 Voltaire, Candide
or Optimism, Trans: Theo Cuff. UK: Penguin, 2005. In the context of the devastation caused by the earthquake and that the optimism of Pangloss is inadequate and not in place this time, and here also when the teacher Pangloss in Candide that he came close to drowning but God rescued him care and that is why Candide, who criticized his teacher in the concept of optimism .