During a time of revolution, Voltaire wrote Candide in desperation to bring true insight on mankind's ignorance. Kicked out of his castle, Candide adventures throughout Europe encountering violent acts, and then retribution for those acts. Consistent violence throughout the novel and its motives invoke thought on a main theme of justice, Voltaire either coincidentally or intently portrayed. Justice was often carried out irrationally and usually with little to no justification, and Freud's Id, Ego, and Superego theory on mankind's action clearly gives justification to mankind's acts seeming like no justification exists. Sigmund Freud's theory divided the state of conscience action into three parts, Id, Ego, and Superego, and each category was able to cause direct action: Id causes action based on basic instinct regarding aggression, sexual desire, and gratifying release; Superego causes action based on societal morality; Ego causes action based upon rational balance, appeasing both Id and...