Candide is Voltaire's naively optimistic protagonist. He lived in a Castle in Westphalia. While there he had a tutor, Pangloss, who taught him that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Pangloss said this about everything and it became Candide's way of life. Candide gets thrown out of the castle for kissing Cunegonde, the baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh's daughter, and travels to Waldberghofftrarbk-dikdorff. While there he gets enlisted in the army and experiences other things that makes him realize that everything is not for the best. Now that he has experienced other things he is no longer as naive or optimistic as before.
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