You never know what you have until you lose it all. We will never value the things we have until some event will take all those things from us. One similar thing happened to Candide. According to Candide: "After being turned out of this earthly paradise, Candide wandered off without thinking which way he was going" (Candide pg 22). After you have everything you may want in life and all of a sudden you lose it you can start to question your purpose. In the case of Candide love proved to be more powerful that reason so he got carried with it and was kicked out. There are many other cases in real life where a sudden difficult situation is enough to make the person crumble and in the worst case scenarios they will commit suicide. The author mentions this in his book because he might be trying to get the reader to feel some sort of compassion towards Candide because he has lost everything in life. He will also be trying to show us how he is going to try to get all that he had beck and surviving the hard times. I predict that this story will be a story where Candide has to go through difficult situations to be able to get back to his love Cunègonde. There are many ways to lose things in life. There can be cases where you commit a terrible mistake that ends up leading to your loss or maybe another person doesn't want you to succeed and takes everything away from you.
Resentment is another theme that is present in Candide. Resentment is a word that means a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as wrong, insult, or injury and that is what a person will feel towards someone that has just made his life go from heaven to hell. War is a main exponent of resentment and in Candide we can find it when Candide tells us: "Finally, the bayonet provided 'sufficient reason' for the death of several thousand more" (Candide pg 25). War is a process where there is no final winner until one side is completely destroyed. In war the mechanism used is you attack me I attack you so this is going to have an end where one side is completely annihilated. I think at the beginning of chapter three there is an irony part because Candide thinks of war as an idea of "Beauty and brilliance of the display" (Candide pg 25). How can war be beautiful? Unless you are a person who doesn't care about anything that happens to other persons or the deaths and sufferings that war brings along you have to find everything but beauty in war. War is the slaying of thousands of people to please the likes of the people in power. The wars are never fought by the ones who want the war to happen they will always be fought by people who might not even agree with the idea. I tend to associate beauty with things that bring joy to human beings. Art is a perfect example of beauty and literature because both have the ability to bring joy to humans. I would say that war can bring joy only to a few people that are the president of the countries when they win. If I were a soldier in any war I wouldn't be happy we won, I would be happy that all the sufferings and the deaths of my friends would stop. If it is by mistakes that war starts or by proposed means war will bring with it effects were people will never be the same and whole nations might end with big resentments toward other nations.
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