Candide considers the city of El Dorado as the utopia that Pangloss would describe as the "best of all possible worlds.... In their conversation Martin explains his pessimism, "in the cities, where people appear to live in peace and the arts flourish, men are devoured by more envy, worry, and dissatisfaction than all the scourges of a city under siege.... At the story's conclusion, Voltaire narrated Candide's final message: "to cultivate our garden." The garden symbolically contrasts the ironic tragedies that man is unable to understand the good and evil in this ...

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Considering the point that he believed himself to be divine, descended from Zeus-Ammon, Ammon who was the serpent god, the serpent being the direct tool of Satan in the Garden of Eden. ... I believe that it was either on a film, or Miss Gunter said that his Barbour finally couldn't take it any more, and exclaimed something like; "he has horns! ... I believe that knowledge would have increased more rapidly as the cultures combined, and the world, he would have found to be bigger than he had ever imagined. ... This is the ideal scenario that things would continue going as they had been, sav...

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