idea. There is a certain balance needed to handle life’s hardships. In Voltaire’s Candide, he highlights hypocrisy in Optimism, Pragmatism, Pessimism, and Nihilism to ultimately reveal the dangers of being too dependent one of idea. Optimism insists that every outcome is the best possible outcome however Voltaire uses the old woman, Cunegonde, and Pangloss, which can be argued is a caricature of Leibniz, to exemplify how there is not always a successful outcome to every
box with documents), a comedy of manners (the scene in the house of a rich bourgeois), and a comedy of characters. Another masterpiece of the Enlightenment is the work of Voltaire “Candide”, where the author presented feudal society in critical manner. Voltaire, disappointed by his own