Despising Gold and Precious Stones

As Candide and Cacambo arrive to Eldorado, Pangloss’s words were now doubted by his pupil. How can Westphalia be a better country compared to a place where children play with gold and Emeralds as if they were simple toy marbles? Do they really have it all? Are they pleased with their government, with their religion, and most importantly do they not have social differences? In Candid’s world such a place does exist, but in our world a country where happiness rules in every community is merely just a symptom of our imagination. Candide was also astonished by how society praised every aspect in their life and had no complain, “We have nothing to ask of God, since he has given us everything we need” (76). Voltaire never gives away the secret of this utopian country in a direct way. Certain clues are shot out for the reader to catch and realize that all that glitters is not gold. It starts when Candide questions how their religion works, “There is only one God, not two¸ three, or four. What odd questions you foreigners ask!” (79).

 Well now we see that really these people of Eldorado are forced to follow one strict belief 

and who knows what will happen if one individual decides to protest.

This is just an aspect of the Royal Family’s impressment because the real trick

uptheirsleeveis the lawthat keeps everyone inside the country. This means no one is allowed to set foot

outside of their little kingdom that anyhow is sorrounded by "unscalible rocks and precipes" just in case. I 

must accept it was a well decided idea because by keeping outside influences such as European nations out, 

they mantain order and ignorance amongst their own people. Their goal is for them to never get rebellious 

ideas or hear about succesful revolutions because it might set an example, like the French to the Americans. 

Cuba works the same here in our own modern world and how have people reacted? Do they agree with 

staying in permanent lockdown inside their country? Eldorado seems to be a paradise that every citizen longs 

for, but it is much more complicated than Candide ever saw it to be, but who can blame him. He ran out 

with enough money and gold to create his own empire.