How Voltaire's Candide Satirizes the Philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz

In this analytical essay, the student explains how Voltaire's Candide savagely critiques Leibniz's optimistic theodicy ("best of all possible worlds") through satire, contrast, and exaggeration, with Pangloss standing in for Leibniz in the story.
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