The New King

Log Entry: MacBeth
III.vi. 1- 57

Perfect, but Unachievable

Who wouldn't like a flawless world were there is perfect balance on every aspect of society? Who wouldn't want to live somewhere where everything and everyone is equal, and there is only good and no bad? On everyone's deepest desires this dream falls upon, however it is only dream, nothing more. No thing such thing as perfection exists, it will always remain as an aspiration, but never a reality. Perfection, in any way is something impossible to achieve.

Eldorado seems to be the ideal society: The utopia we've all dreamed of. It is amazing how such place could be found, however it is all but a mere reality, it is nothing more than pure fiction. "We are all of the same opinions here" (Pg. 80) Until the day of today, most of the global issues happening all around the world are caused because  of dissenting views. People are always disputing on who is right or wrong. Virtually everything on earth has dissenting views, is it from global warming to the theory of the dinosaurs extinction. It is impossible for everyone to agree of everything, that's just not the way things are and it will never be like that. Moreover, Voltaire exhibits this place as hidden from everything, almost impossible to reach. "The mountains which surround my entire kingdom are then thousand feet high, and as sheer as wall. Each of them covers an area  of more than thirty square mils, and when you reach the top, you can only clamber down precipices." (Pg. 83) Which in others words, can be translated to an allegory to the impossible. Such place is impossible to reach, therefore it doesn't exist, it can only exist in our imagination. 

Eldorado doesn't exist, and Voltaire clearly knew that. He shows and portrays el Eldorado that way, in order for to his readers to see the perfect, but unattainable society. He exhibits what we must strive for, but through the book demonstrates that we will never achieve that, much less perfection, as our nature doesn't allow us to. 

The Poor Village

On earth there are luxurious places, and there are wretched places. Power is always unevenly distributed.  Either a place is very powerful or it is very miserable, but there is never complete equality. Through time we have learned that the human race is a very greedy and selfish one, only thinking on their personal good. 

It is amazing how we can find places where treasures are wasted on decorations, moreover treated as unworthy and common, when they could be used to help other's despair. “They walked over to a modest little house…the door was mere silver, and the rooms were panelled with nothing better than gold… The hall was incrusted only with rubies and emeralds…extreme simplicity” (Pg. 78) In places such as America and Africa, were nowadays many countries suffer from extreme poverty and in many cases severe internal problems. Which were all caused by their history, all based upon colonization. Most of the problems these third world countries face revolve around the fact that their people and basically everything their lands had to offer was exploited and stolen. It is all centered on cause and effect. During this time, while some in the new world enjoyed the delights of wealthiness,  even offering visitors “liqueurs in diamond glasses” (Pg. 78) many of the native inhabitants suffered as slaves, the pleasures that poverty had to offer them. However, there were places like Eldorado were the human race wasn't greedy at all, but still wasted huge opportunities by having in their possession all that wealth, but not using it to help others in need. 

Why do we  mostly waste the opportunities we have to give some of our own wealth to help others succeed? Oh right, because we are too selfish to do so. Through the course of Candide, I have realized that the only thing that Voltaire portrays humans as, is as crude, terrifying creatures that live in an unfair tremendously horrid planet, and he never gets tired of repeating the same thing, over and over again as to make his point extremely evident to the reader.