In Candide, do you think Voltaire agrees completely with Martin's philosophy?

Martin
is presented byas the foil to Pangloss. He's as much an incorrigible pessimist as Pangloss is an
optimist. In fact, Martin is so pessimistic that he doesn't believe there's any good in the
world at all. Such an attitude is not one that Voltaire himself shared. On the contrary, he
believed, in common with many of the leading thinkers of the Enlightenment, that people were
innately good but corrupted by the artificial institutions of human society. In particular,
Voltaire singled out the...