Candide: Francois-Marie Voltaire

`Private misfortunes make up the general good, so that the more private misfortunes there are, the greater is the general good.`
(Pangloss)
After being caught kissing the Baron`s daughter Cunegonde, gullible ingenue Candide is evicted from the castle where he lives to find himself wandering a world awash with disease, injustice and slaughter. Can he reconcile what he sees and experiences with the optimistic philosophy of his mentor Pangloss, that they live in `the best of all possible worlds` and that `everything is for the best`?