In, "Candide," Voltaire depicts the epic adventures of Candide, in his search for the love of his life, Cunegonde. The optimistic views of the world that he learned from Pangloss were challenged by the realities of life. He traveled the globe and met people who were selfish, immoral and inhuman. These people he became acquainted with forced Candide to start second guessing Pangloss’ philosophy of, “the best of all possible worlds.” Candide was born as the illegitimate nephew of the Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, in Westphalia, Germany. Pangloss, the teacher in the castle, had a profound impact on Candide’s education. The optimistic, narrow-minded views of the world that Pangloss had were adopted by Candide. Pangloss believed that the world they lived in was “the best of all possible worlds” and that God created the world so it must be perfect. Pangloss’ beliefs were shared with the majority of people at that time and Voltaire mocks them by having a series of traumatic events occur while Pangloss remained optimistic. While living in the castle, Candide fell in love with the Baron’s daughter, Cunegonde. The Baron caught them kissing and he banishes Candide from the Castle forcing Candide apart from Cunegonde. He then traveled to the next town over, Waldberghoff-trarbk-dikdorff. He was found by two men who gave him food and enrolled him into the Bulgar Army. One day he was on a walk and was captured by soldiers, who took him to court because they thought that he was quitting the army. Candide’s punishment was to choose between execution and being stabbed by a group of men thirty-six times, resulting in death. He chose to do the stabbing but after a couple of hits the king let him go because he said that Candide was ignorant of the world. After being let go he fled to Holland and was helped by Jacques, who is an Anabaptist. He housed Candide and gave him a job. These acts of kindness helped Candide confirm that Pangloss’ teachings of living in the best world are true. Candide happened to walk into a beggar who it turns out is Pangloss. He told Candide how the Baron’s castle was attacked by the Bulgar army and how everyone died besides him, who became sick with syphilis. This story that Pangloss tells sets up the reoccurring theme of resurrection for the remainder of the book. Characters who were once thought to be dead turned out to survive and reappear. I believe that Voltaire chose to have characters “come back to life” to mock the bible for having stories of resurrection such as Jesus being resurrected on the third day and also to keep Candide going on trips throughout the story. Having Cunegonde be alive instead of being dead forced Candide to travel the globe in search for her. Without her reappearing, the story would have been dead. Candide, Pangloss, and Jacques travel to Lisbon and on their way; a horrible storm hits them, and kills Jacques. When they arrive in Lisbon they discover it was destroyed by an earthquake and that people were taking advantage of the destruction by stealing. Even with all of the horrible stuff occurring, Pangloss continues to remain ignorantly optimistic saying that the earthquake was for the better. This is another example of Voltaire mocking the philosophies of Pangloss. Pangloss got into an argument with someone over his philosophy of everything is for the better. He is labeled as a heretic which eventually led to the Portuguese government hanging him. Later that same day another earthquake hit Lisbon and that was the first time Candide started doubting whether he was actually living in the best of all possible