"...its the best of all possible worlds..."
It's like the problem of evil. The problem of evil is that there is an all and powerful God, yet we have so much suffering in thi world. Dr. Pangloss has this belief that even with all this strife in the world, this is the best way it can be. That God created the world this way for a reason that we may never know. However, it leads us to question why Dr. Pangloss would tell Candide if this tale that all the bad that is going on is God's plan. Candide suffers alot, and will continue to suffer as we read on from what I assume.
Dr. Pangloss was Candide's mentor, and taught him that God is all powerful and what God did was better than an alternative. In spite of his beliefs, it was what led himn to his ultimate death. He believed in things that was agianst the ways of the Catholic Church, and was hung for that (an audodefe). I don't think Candide has yet to fully understand why Dr. Pangloss died the way he did, but as he comes to face reality.
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