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.
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