Cicero

The message of Voltaire's Candide is that the world in which we live is populated with people who live primarily in order to get what they want, using whatever means necessary, and always looking for innocent victims of whom they can take advantage. Voltaire rejects the optimistic view that people tend to be reasonable, kind, helpful, wise, or compassionate. Candide is an innocent in this cruel and cold world, the perfect victim for the majority of people who are looking precisely for such a victim to use and abuse. Candide is the ideal example of "he who does not know history" and is, therefore, "destined to remain a child."

He is either a fool or a saint, but in either case he is not equipped to deal with the general run of human beings who live like jackals searching for anything or anybody to devour. He believes that other human beings are as good as he is, as naturally g

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responsible action. Hamlet is not the philosopher he is too often portrayed as being, but is instead a brooding child who is trying somehow to put off the action which is mandated by his father's ghost, by his own love for his father, and by history and the gods which call for such revenge. Hamlet is like a child who resists as long as possible taking the difficult action which his father has told him he must take in the name of justice. One might argue that Hamlet is only delaying in order to make sure that Claudius is the killer of Hamlet's father. One might argue that Hamlet is simply behaving like an adult in order to gather as much evidence as possible in order to allay his doubts and make sure he is not taking another human life wrongly. However, the play clearly indicates that Hamlet immediately believes the Ghost's claims about the truth of his father's death, and has no doubts whatsoever. In fact, Hamlet is already in a state of rage at Claudius and his mother for their hasty marriage in the wake of the murder of Hamlet's father. The apparent doubts which follow are not true doubts at all but merely indications of the childish fear and irresponsibility of Hamlet. His "doubts" are a childish way to delay and avoid the i
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