Everything Happens For the Best

Does everything happens for the best? Certainly that is what Pangloss, the "greatest philosopher in the whole world" thinks. After being infected by a disease, loosing an eye and an ear, seeing James the Anabaptist be killed and being hanged, Pangloss holds his thought that everything happens for the best (well I do not know if after being hanged haha). Candide, does feel a bit doubtful towards this idea after seeing his master, Pangloss, be hanged in front of his own eyes. As soon as he starts questioning himself, a good woman appears and takes care of him. Candide does not know who the woman is, or why she is being so kind to him.

He still had suffered some hard blows life gave him. He had lost the love of his life right? Wrong. One day he is taken to a desolated house, where he is stunned by what he sees after walking up some stairs. Lady Cunégonde is in front of him. At first, he cannot believe it, well he was assured that she was dead. They talk for a while, and update each other of what has been of them since that kiss Candide gave to Lady Cunégonde. Maybe now he can start believing again on what Pangloss said, even though Lady Cunégonde  did not share Pangloss's views. It's ironic, that they say that Pangloss is the best philosopher in the world. Obviously he is not, and the text proves to the reader as the story goes by that Pangloss is nuts. I mean, how in the world can you think that an earthquake or having a disease is for the best? Just crazy. Even I could be a better philosopher than Pangloss. Okay, maybe now I went too far, I wouldn't be better than Pangloss. Still, you get my point.

Also, we see a lot of care and love between Candide and Lady Cunégonde. When he describes her as a "pearl amongst women" and as she describes her feelings when seeing Candide suffer at the auto-da-fé. Which by the way is also crazy and ironic, well it consists of sacrificing people to prevent earthquakes. As I am writing this, I am even more aware of the absurdities said by Pangloss and the rest. Okay, back to the love. They have attraction to each other, but who knows how things will happen for the best. Maybe they might as well commit suicide for the best. As this story is going, I'm not talking non-sense. In the meanwhile, good luck to Candide and what is left for him.