Candide

Throughout the novel, Candide, Voltaire repeatedly exploits the nature of humans to consider other's situations and lifestyles to be better than that of their own. Voltaire uses Candide's journeys to portray the human assumption that the grass is always greener on the other side. This theme is shown in Candide's strife for companionship, his experience with wealth, and his interaction with other characters. The situations that develop the theme do so in such a way …

…reader can see that Voltaire repeatedly exploits the nature of humans to consider other's situations and lifestyles to be better than that of their own. This commonly expressed theme is obvious in Candide's strife for companionship, his experiences with wealth, and assumptions about characters. These situations that develop the theme allow the reader to know the wants of Candide and see how he learns that mankind thinks that different situations and statuses are more suited