dismembered innocent women and children. Voltaire used this violent act to express the vulgar inhumanity of many groups who cruelly tortured others. He believed that if he was living in the best of all possible worlds, innocent women and children would not be brutally injured, and evil people like the Bulgarians would not exist. (25) I, also, can see how viewing such vile deaths would make one feel that the world had gone awry. Seeing such awful actions all around me, I would not be able to feel that the world was perfect and all was as it should be.Even after Candide traveled to England, he saw vicious acts of cruelty surrounding him. One example is the death of an admiral that did not have enough dead men to his credit, (111). Voltaire used this brutal death to show that the people of the times were more concerned with numbers than lives. A man was killed merely because he did not kill enough innocent victims. In Voltaires eyes, this was the worst form of brutality he could imagine. In a world where everything has a purpose, Voltaire could not see where unreasonable deaths fit in. Although the novella, Candide, was partially written for entertainment purposes, it was primarily written to discredit the views of Leibniz and Pope. These philosophers felt that the world around them was just as God would have it, but Voltaire adamantly disagreed. He presented his point of view by satirizing the Church, the arrogance of aristocrats, and war and violence. Voltaire looked at the world with the idea that there could be something done about all the evil in the world. Although he knew the world would never be perfect, he wanted people to see that the world they were living in was one that could be improved upon....
