... it a priori, forcing Candide to blindly believe the theory, without any valid reasoning. Every single person in Candide, with the exception to the inhabitants of El Dorado, has suffered enormously in their life. In seeking happiness, all they find is pain, rape, slavery and an unjust death. Candide himself is struggling between the philosophies of Pangloss and Martin. Candide, being raised under Pangloss' ideology ... , initially views life accordingly. However, after Pangloss' apparent death, Candide was left to the guidance of the Old Women ... is put to the ultimate test when he gives...

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