Visualizing Perfection in Candide"Everything is for the best...in the best of all possible worlds." Imagining grandeur, perfection and splendor all intertwined in one beautiful world – a utopia, involves visualizing absolute beauty, harmony and a universal tolerance among humanity. Wouldn't such "perfection" designate the "best of all possible worlds?" How might we conceive of the sinister world portrayed in Candide as "utopia"? Since the best of all possible worlds indicates that "everything is for the best", is it not correct to conclude that since our world is clearly not "perfect", it is therefore implied that "everything" is not for the best? Who determines "right" from "wrong", "beautiful" from "horrendous", "strong" from weak?" How do you ever know if they are right? How do you ever know if they chose "correctly" ?" How can you allow yourself to become infatuated with an idea to the point of blindly following it (correctly or incorrectly) and believing in it? When do you question yourself? Do you doubt and "guess" yourself? Related arguments of this type are sought for an ambiguous solution to be explained in Candide. Voltaire's masterpiece, Candide, tells the journey of a young man as he ventures out into the world and faces reality, grapples with it, is guided, transformed and ultimately defined by it. Voltaire's story tells the story of Candide as his character matures from the naivety of a child to the expansive temperament of a distinguished man. Born and raised in the castle of the Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, in the land of Westphalia, Germany, Candide is of first...... middle of paper... in the best of all possible worlds; in short, if I had not been thrown from behind from a beautiful castle for the sake of Miss Cunegund, if I had not been put in the Inquisition, if I had not been put you traveled on foot across America, if I had not pierced the baron and had you not lost all the sheep you brought from the good country of El Dorado, you would not have been here eating preserved citrons and pistachios." Voltaire therefore shows both sides of the spectrum, Pangloss, the unchanging, and Candide, the "developed" These adventures have broadened Candide's horizons and, with him, the reader also faces many challenging dilemmas, cultivating himself in many of the same ways ideas behind Murphy's Law.