t one would want to live the extraordinary life. So, although life in El Dorado seems perfect, it would not be the ideal place for everyone. For example, in a conversation with the king of El Dorado, Candide discusses ideals that exist in El Dorado. In the conversation, Candide is very surprised about how harmonious El Dorado is. Candide says, ”Have you no monks among you to dispute, to govern, to intrigue, and to burn people who are not the same opinion with themselves (53).” The king replies that everyone on El Dorado has the same opinion. Yet, Candide is not a person who forms his own opinion. Pangloss taught his beliefs to Candide. Candide is used to not having the same opinions as others because not many people agreed with Pangloss’s views. A world where everyone agrees with one another might seem a little mundane to him. A mundane world would not be a perfect world for Candide. It seems Candide likes the excitement and the drama that a less perfect world would bring him. In the last chapter, a wise Turk told Candide, “I have no more then twenty acres of ground, the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us three great evils – idleness, vice, and want (79).” These great evils all existed in some form in El Dorado. Want exists in El Dorado because Candide wants the riches of the land. This is proven by the fact that Candide takes some of the riches of El Dorado. Want, however, is not apparent for the natives in El Dorado. Candide subscribed to all the evil while he was in El Dorado. Candide was idle because he did nothing in El Dorado. He was not a soldier or a general, as he was in his other adventures. Candide also had several moral flaws, but the one that drove him out of El Dorado was greed. Candide knew that he could be very wealthy in other parts of the world with just a few of the riches of El Dorado.At the end of the book, when Candide ...
