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Candide Wealth and great materialistic possession brings happiness and success to most people’s lives. Although wealth does not always bring happiness, El Dorado was one society where all it’s inhabitants lived lives full of success and happiness. In Candide, wealth proved to guarantee a person a step forward in life and some sense of freedom. Sometimes when one lives in an environment consisting of total equality, one may prefer to leave and go to a different place where they would be considered superior and everyone else inferior to them. The people of El Dorado were so wealthy that they abused the things that they possessed that others would cherish. The children proved this when they were playing at quoits covered with tattered …show more content…

Prayer was not a part of anyone’s life in this society because they all felt that there was no need to pray since they had everything they needed. We saw that this was a belief of the Revered Sage when he said, "We have nothing to ask of Him, He has given us all we want, and we give Him thanks incessantly." (51). To me this way of thinking was very wrong. Prayer is a big part of my life and I feel that even if one feels that everything is perfect, prayer should not be eliminated from their lives. Stopping the praying may lead to great misfortune. As long as you have God in your life you will be protected and cared for. Equality and happiness among every single person in a society may lead to one’s desire to escape to another society where they would differ. Here in El Dorado Cacambo and Candide had the chance to be rich and happy alongside everyone else in their society, but this was not what they wanted. In societies where everyone seems to be equal, one may at times feel the want to escape to a place where they would be in some sense different, special, and superior. If everyone were the same, their lives would not include any type of competition, and no one would have goals to reach to be better than anyone else. Candide and Cacambo knew that they would be happy be happy in El Dorado, but they preferred not to stay and feel this sense of total equality among everyone else. We saw that Candide did not want to stay and live in

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