“is there anything more absurd than to wish to carry continually a burden which one can always throw down? to detest existence and yet to cling to one's existence? in brief, to caress the serpent which devours us, till he has eaten our very heart?” ( Voltaire, Candide) Innocent is a quality of being detached from being morally wrong while the experience is the knowledge a person gains in life through learning and doing. The transformation of the protagonist Candide, endures the suffering to progress towards adulthood. His course starting from an innocent personality like a youngster without any responsibility into one practical man. The experience of Candide was all about human suffering to generate to his final destiny; He goes through many adventures and matures into an experience man, the cruelty of his life with a philosophical view that all things in life are important for some greater good. Candide eventually learns to achieve happiness in the face of misfortune, he realized that things will not always happen for the best and things starts to change in his innocent head. …show more content…
This realization made him from a naive young person into one grown realist. This particular growth of Candide made him build his own lifetime, however simple it may be. When he began learning suffering in different ways like loneliness, love, disaster, he understood that mistakes make one experience, and to never regret the mistakes but to correct it. These events in life changed Candide’s