the "best of all possible worlds," innocent people would not be harmed, and violent peoples such as the Bulgarians would not exist.Upon arrival in England, Candide witnesses another instance of brutality, the execution of an admiral because of his failure towin a battle. A reply to Candide's questioning of the act is, "...it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others." This is an obvious allusion to an incident Voltaire himself witnessed. Admiral Byng of England was court-martialed for the same outrageous reason, and although Voltaire tried to stop the execution, Byng was still killed (Durant and Durant 725).Although the novella Candide was partially written for entertainment purposes, it was written primarily to satirize the views of Leibniz's philosophy. Voltaire looked at the world with the idea that there could be something done about all of the evil in the world. He achieved his goal of satirizing Leibniz by tearing apart Pangloss' philosophy, using Martin as a contrast to Pangloss, showing the destruction caused by natural disasters, and the brutality of war....
