aving el dorado with gold and jewels in order to gain wealth and notoriety in their world. Voltaire was even as specific as to attack Elie-Catherine Freron, a critic of his, in Candide by making her the insufferable critic at the French play. To make a long story short, Voltaire was trying to make everyone see how ridiculous and dumb they looked to be involved in petty squabbles on religion or class when none of that mattered. He is stressing the importance of equality, and his belief that humans cause their own misery thru greed and prejudice.

Voltaire lived in a time when Europe was very much a devout religious, autocratic society, but the advent of science and geology were challenging convention, such as the creation of the world in seve

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