Voltaire’s treatment of non-European cultures is indicative of his disdain for the idea of European superiority and arrogance. Candide depicts El Dorado as the ideal society to challenge that idea that just society is a Christian society. El Dorado is an egalitarian society in comparison to Europe there is no clergy or noble class and the you address the king as an equal. El Dorado does away with society of orders and rejects the idea of divine rule. The old turk represents the happiness of living a modest life and challenges Europe’s insatiable desire for power and wealth. Candide criticizes the false sense of moral superiority of Christian morality and see’s their moralizing call to civilize savages facade for their colonialist policies.
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