The+irrational+belief+in+constant+optimism+is+foolish+and+makes+you+vulnerable


 * Plot**
 * Beginning:** In the beginning, Candide has the idea that everything in the world is for the best. After being kick out of the castle, he is drafed into the Bulgarian army. He is poorly treated, whipped, and almost executed. When he leaves the army, he finds the oracle, who belittles Candide and the orators wife pours poop on his head. He finds Pangloss plagued with siphilis a little bit later. And when he finds James the Anabaptist, the only good person in the city, he drowns when he falls into the ocean and no one saves him. All of these show how his complete belief in optimism is foolish, and in some cases leaves him vulnerable. An earthquake kills the city, and to please the gods, the Inquisitor holds an auto-de-fe, where Candide is whipped and Pangloss is hung.


 * Characterization**
 * -**Candide's name means naive in French.