... wagon saying how she still has one child out of three alive when, in truth, they are all dead. In this instance, the sorrow brought on by truth of her son's death clearly supports the Bible's statement. Furthermore, Voltaire's Candide also exemplifies the happiness in the state of naivety. Candide, the main character, is only a great optimist and a nice person by virtue of a lack of experience in the real world and how cruel it can be ... , the Book of Genesis in which Adam and Eve are cast out of paradise after partaking of the Tree of Knowledge. Paralleling Adam and Eve's cast out of G...

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