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Analysis. The landlord leads Candide to the house of an old wise man who might be able to answer his many questions about the place. The old man explains that El Dorado is the ancient homeland of the Inca, who “imprudently,” left it to build an empire, which was then destroyed by the Spanish. He explains that El Dorado's happiness comes ...
- Summary: Chapter 17
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- Summary: Chapter 19
- Analysis: Chapters 17–19
Cacambo and Candide continue to travel, but their horses die and their food runs out. They find an abandoned canoe and row down a river, hoping to find signs of civilization. After a day, their canoe smashes against some rocks. Cacambo and Candide make their way to a village, where they find children playing with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds. Whe...
Cacambo and Candide go to see the village sage, a 172-year-old man. The sage explains that his people have vowed never to leave their kingdom, which is called Eldorado. High mountains surround the kingdom, so no outsiders can get in, making Eldorado safe from European conquests. They also have a God whom they thank every day for giving them what th...
Cacambo and Candide lose all but two sheep as they travel to Surinam, but the last two sheep still carry a sizable fortune. Cacambo and Candide meet a slave on the road who is missing a leg and a hand. The slave tells them that his own mother sold him to his cruel master, Vanderdendur. He tells them of the misery of slavery, and his words prompt Ca...
Eldorado is Voltaire’s utopia, featuring no organized religion and no religious persecution. None of the inhabitants attempts to force beliefs on others, no one is imprisoned, and the king greets visitors as his equals. The kingdom has an advanced educational system and poverty is nonexistent. This world is clearly the best of the worlds represente...
Chapter XVIII. “I am very ignorant, but not the worse on that account. However, we have in this neighborhood an old man retired from Court who is the most learned and most communicative person in the kingdom.”. At once he took Cacambo to the old man. Candide acted now only a second character, and accompanied his valet.
Chapter 18 Summary. “What they saw in the land of El Dorado”. The innkeeper tells Cacambo that he is a happily ignorant man, but there is a wise man in the village who is the most learned and ...
Feb 22, 2022 · Candide/Chapter 18. Candide and His Servant Arrive in the Country of El Dorado. What They Saw There. Cacambo vented all his curiosity upon the landlord by a thousand different questions. The honest man answered him thus: “I am very ignorant, Sir, but I am contented with my ignorance; however, we have in this neighbourhood an old man retired ...
Summary and Analysis Chapters XVII-XVIII. At the frontiers of the Oreillon country, Cacambo told Candide that this hemisphere was no better than the other and that they ought to go back to Europe. Candide, rudely awakened regarding the world he knew in Western Europe, had been sure that the New World would be that best of all possible ones.
Candide and Cacambo were placed on this machine, and they took with them two large red sheep, bridled and saddled, to ride upon, when they got on the other side of the mountains; twenty others to serve as sumpters for carrying provisions; thirty laden with presents of whatever was most curious in the country, and fifty with gold, diamonds, and ...
