El Dorado,
in 's famous , is the legendary shining city of splendor. When Candide and
Cacambo accidentally stumble into this magnificent city in the middle of their journeys, they
are in for a surprise. Voltaire clearly uses it as a foil for his interpretation of
eighteenth-century Europe: he has nothing but good things to say about El Dorado, while he
couldn't be more disparaging toward Europe.
The city of El Dorado is a
utopia of pristine perfectionthe city's streets are lined with precious stones, the people are
all rational and intelligent (the one place in this book where this is true),...
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