Voltaire once said that “optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable." Through this quote, one can assume that Voltaire is more like a realistic person who attacked the school of optimism. Through “Candide” Voltaire critique the philosophers of the enlightenment. Candide, the hero of the novel encounters many difficulties throughout his journey, but sticks to the teaching of his tutor Pangloss who believes that “everything is for the best”. Voltaire portrays Pangloss as an exaggerated caricature of excessively optimistic. While Candide tell an interesting story, it is more importantly as a satire against optimism and Religion to critique the philosophers of the enlightenment. During the age of enlightenment, philosophers believed that reason could be used to explain everything. They believed that people could make this world a better place to live. This optimistic view is the main target of Voltaire’s satire that he exemplified through the personage of Pangloss who claims that “all is for the bestin the best of all possible worlds”. Pangloss philosophy parodies the philosopher Leibniz theory of optimism. According to this theory, since God is all powerful and all wise he must have create the best of all possible world, and anything that appears to be evil is really contributing to the overall good. Voltaire is against such optimism. He does not believe in an unrealistic world where injustice and abuse people might face could be justify by reason. According to Voltaire true happiness can only be experience in an unreal world. Voltaire illustrated his non-belief of optimism through the multiple disasters that Candide endures after leaving Eldorado. Moreover, Candide loses four of his sheep full of jewels due to natural disasters, and then sees his two remaining sheep stolen. Candide says “Certainly, if everything goes well, it is in Eldorado and not in the rest of the world”. He adds: �