"The Candide" Voltaire's Candide is the story of an innocent man's experiences and adventures in a mad and evil world of disaster, his struggle to survive in that world, and his need to ultimately accept these struggles. Candide is naïve and accepts anything that he is told, totally trusting. Everyone experience difficult times in life and must overcome obstacles, both natural and man-made in order to eventually achieve happiness. After a long and difficult …showed first 75 words of 876 total…

…showed last 75 words of 876 total…be just, be vigilant, know how to make the best of a bad situation and keep from theorizing. Candide eventually achieves happiness with his friends in their simple, yet full, lives. The book's ending support Voltaire's moral that one must work to reach satisfaction. Work helps Candide overcome his tragedies and enables him to live peacefully and in happiness. Bibliography Wilkie, Brian and James Hurt. Literature of the Western World. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2001.