Candide In El Dorado

Candide and Cacambo have reached El Dorado. Wow! Men wasted their lives searching for this city, which is one of the reasons we gained independence. And all of sudden Cacambo find this lost city, this reminded me of Pirates Of The Caribbean. In this movie we have Jack Sparrow, who is in the Davy Jones locker, and his friends went to find him. This place is for dead and is a place lost in time, to find the place you need to be lost. I believe that by dumb luck, Cacambo and Candide found this place. When you are new to a place you make different analyzes and expand your views, which is why people who travel more have a different view of the world. Voltaire may have use the finding of El Dorado as a way to express or amplify the topic of political views mocked. In this place what we find of material importance are the same as a plain rock in the ground which kind of mocks the idea of optimism and death, what seems important is not. So if we have optimism for money we find this world where is not worth it. I also believe that Voltaire was making a point and mocking those who lost their lives on finding gold. “Brittan plans to send 500 more soldiers to Afghanistan” war is being promoted and in this case being optimistic that with 500 more soldiers there is a chance of maybe winning or helping the war. But in Afghanistan the values of life are different than in Britain and El Dorado is a very different place to where either Candide or Cacambo have been a cultural clash. And those soldiers who are going to Afghanistan may expand their thoughts like Candide.