in the camp is not caused by providence because these deaths were atrocious. Innocent people died, for what no real purpose. Levi does not view death as an act that causes good things to happen, but instead he sees it as a horrible thing that cannot have good come from it.Levi also uses the character of Zeigler, as an example to how providence is not always in work. The reason Zeigler is killed is not that he is ill, nor that he is useless in the camp, both being reasons for the Germans to exterminate a person, but instead only because of chance. Levi views the massacre of many of his fellow prisoners as useless. His death does not appear to have any purpose, and because of that, it contradicts the exact idea of providence.Levi also points out the falseness in Kuhn, a prisoner who, after the examinations, was not chosen to die. While he prays, he thanks God for his life and for not being one of the chosen sent to the gas chambers. Levi reacts, Does Kuhn not understand that what has happened today is an abomination, which no propitiatory prayer, no pardon, no expiation by the guilty, which nothing at all in the power of man can ever clean again?4 Kuhn believes that Gods providence is at work for him. What he does not realize is that although he will not die tomorrow, his death will come soon. He feels a false sense of providence. Even though he passed one examination, he will most likely not make it through another and consequently die.Throughout the book, the character of Candide changes and he develops into a mature person who works and takes on a new philosophy that not everything is a result of providence. That one cannot just let the world go as it may, but should take an active part in it. Candide begins to realize that evil exists in this world and there is nothing one can do about it. Voltaire introduces the phrase Cultivating ones Garden which shows that if one works, they might possibly be able to exist in a stat...
