Candide

Candide or, the Optimist: Candide is Voltaire’s most acclaimed work. Candide is a good-natured, easy-minded man. He lodges at the baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh’s estate, and believes in what his teacher Pangloss says "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds". Candid falls in love with Cunégonde, the daughter of the baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, and gets exiled by the baron, begins to lead a vagrant life. The book aims to criticize blind optimism. Candide,  Cunégonde and Pangloss believe that the world is perfect, everything and everybody is perfect at first, but they are hardened by many misfortunes that befall them. They realize that the world is not flawless, only labor can help us get away from troubles, faults and wants. There is also an utopia -- El Dorado, a fantastic village in which the inhabitants are simply rational, and their society is just and reasonable. It is Voltaire’s political ideal.