The word innocence generally means lack of guilt when talking about involvement in any crime, sin or wrong doing. The guilty is the convict while someone who is not found guilty courtesy some evidence is deemed as innocent by the law. In other context, someone who has lesser experience in comparison to his peers is also considered innocent because of his lack of experience. Angela Carter had once remarked, “Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.”
Sometimes, people cannot analyse or comprehend the nature of their acts either because of being a minor or because they are severely mentally disabled. Such lack of thinking power can also be attributed to innocence. In the words of Denis Diderot, “Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.”
