Voltaire's Treatment of the Idea "This is the Best of the Possible World"

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Voltaire's treatment of the idea "this is the best of the possible world" in his satire Candide
We face a known and unknown, planned and unplanned activity every day we wake to a morning of any day. Yet we hope it is a great day and lovely things that we wake up to every dawn. However, this is not the case. People wake up to different things, good or bad, and which excites different moods in people. But the ultimate goal for everybody is to live a happy life with everything good surrounding us. In his fiction "Candide," Voltaire demonstrates how life never gifts us with what we want or what we think is the best for us. Every day presents fresh challenges, and Candide, alongside other characters in the novel, has to fight them. This essay discusses how Voltaire treats the idea "this is the best of possible" world in his satirical novel. The paper argues that Voltaire vividly describes that the moment we live might be the best, but it is not a guarantee that we will live in it forever.
Pangloss, the scholar in the novel, used the phrase "this is the best of possible" as he taught Candide, the protagonist. Candide was an illegitimate nephew to a German baron, meaning he was living a good life, which might have triggered Pangloss to tell Candide that life was the best of all possible options (Voltaire, 4). However, Voltaire soon turns this state of "the best of all possible" around when Candide falls in love with the Baron's young daughter Cunegonde, and he faces the Baron's wrath. Candide wonders why the best place has turned worse and unwelcoming for him and his teacher Pangloss.
Candide flees to Holland, where Jacques, an Anabaptist, accommodates him. He pumps into a deformed beggar who happened to be Pangloss, the scholar. Pangloss's life turned over from the good life while with the Baron into a sick beggar. He explains that the Bulgar army invaded and brutally murdered everyone, including the Baron, Cunégonde, and all her family (Voltaire, 14&15). This is a second instance that shows that the Baron's castle was the best of all possible worlds because after leaving, Pangloss is going through tough times. It is sadder that the castle's occupants were brutally murdered by the Bulgarian army and changing their status quo. The Baron who enjoyed the privileges of his title was dead.
Pangloss and Candide thought their lives would soon be back to their initial happy moments, like in the castle after Jacques taking them in. This was not the case. They traveled to Lisbon only to find that an earthquake had hit the place. Worse enough, a storm hit their water vessel, and Jacques died in the scene (Voltaire, 19). Candide and the philosopher, Pangloss, must have recalled the teaching...