candide
...become educated about this world not being as perfect as he might have thought. At first he was set on his beliefs because of Pangloss the philosopher soaking his Candide’s head with his way of life by say such phrases as all is for the best but after being mocked by other characters, he finally realizes how knieve his way of thinking is. The first sign of Candide questioning pangloss’s pilosiphy after the earthquake in Lisbon. Candide is slow to give up his faith in Pangloss's philosophy of optimism. But after losing his friends and receiving a dreadful beating at an auto-da-fé, Candide can't reconcile his misfortunes with Pangloss's philosophy. Now that Pangloss is not around to explain away every tragedy, Candide wonders how the who...