Voltaire's Loss Of Innocence

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”(Book 6, Voltaire) An experience that can improve human life, where disappointment is the important passage from innocence to experience, which is the experience of our own self being. The innocence represents childhood, the period of naivety, honesty and honor. Whereas, the experience qualifies through the journey of the human spirit, the disappointment that comes from it, the harsh reality of adulthood. “I am a child and thou a lamb.” (Book 5, 217) William Blake, portrays the dependency of a child with their parents, which can be an example of pure innocence, also …show more content…
His judgement was quite sound, his mind simple as could be, this is the reason, I think, that he was named Candide.” (275-276) Candide means bright, which is why his face resembles his soul, of purity and light in nature. When he was cast out of the castle because of his behavior, in spite of his innocence, his love that is as pure as his soul, his first love. Therefore, according to Voltaire, the nature of humanity is judged according to its actions and not intentional. The tender love for Miss Cunegonde becomes his crime, and he sets forth to believe humans to be like beasts. He judges others by his simple mind, the direction he is treated, so naive that he does not realize where he belongs and whom he loves and kissed. It is very important to reason, the innocent child like Candide, which did not expect that he would be hurled out of the castle for such behavior, because his intentions were childlike, full of tender love for Cunegonde. Though he had free will to do as he chose to, but he was driven to choose otherwise, by being separated from his love. Voltaire contradicts the concept of good and bad in his literary Work, that nothing comes easy, and one has to go through a lot to bear fruit in the end and truly understand the Concept of reality by seeing it, that 's when you grow internally. Innocence and experience have nothing to do with the human age, only for enlightenment in his soul, apart from the religious beliefs that …show more content…
The unshackled mind of the masses, a direct result of religious, social, economic and political forms of control is still placed not the external institutions, but also by our own limitations of ourselves. This can refer to the ignorance that has captured in the people 's mind, in London. There are cycles of miseries, where people’s minds are not complimentary. The man, himself has made these restraints to curb the common public in London. In addition, it speaks about the churches not wanting to do anything for the poor, and its walls are black with it, it has not wanted to improve the lives of common masses. The brutal side of the London of innocent children who live the life of misery, also made to do something so tremendous, for absolutely nothing in return; Their experience is building up for the wrong reasons and they do not have a choice, and the next generation will not be any better. Various events that occur throughout the city is the cause of ignorance, where people who are knowledgeable are so commanded by this